Egyptian protesters are back in force at Tahrir Square in central Cairo in a bid to oust the military regime that replaced former leader Hosni Mubarak nine months ago. FRANCE 24's team in Cairo looks at what triggered these fresh protests.
In an exclusive interview with François Picard, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara insisted that his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo, must be tried for crimes committed during the deadly standoff that followed last year's disputed presidential election.
With the West suddenly cured of amnesia when it came to Muammar Gaddafi, one life lesson is that it really doesn’t take a lot of money to absolve past sins. François Picard’s panel discusses what Libya says about corruption in the West as well as Ivory Coast’s forgotten civil war.
With the West suddenly cured of amnesia when it came to Muammar Gaddafi, one life lesson is that it really doesn’t take a lot of money to absolve past sins. François Picard’s panel discusses what Libya says about corruption in the West as well as Ivory Coast’s forgotten civil war.
A year ago, French police broke up makeshift refugee camps outside the northern port of Calais. Hundreds of migrants were there to try to cross the channel to the United Kingdom. Today, the migrants are still there. There may be less of them, but this is because groups are now dispersed all along the coastline from Cherbourg in France to Ostend in Belgium.
It’s been nearly five years now, since 2005, against a backdrop of civil war and political crisis, and Ivorians are still waiting for a presidential election that has yet to take place. Elections are now supposed to take place next in spring. But voters remain skeptical. What has led to these repeated postponements?
