A general in the French Air Force, Stéphane Abrial, has officially become one of NATO’s two supreme allied commanders. He is the first non-American ever to hold the job.
World stock markets are finally regaining ground and some economists believe recovery from the crisis is underway, but the massive unemployment still expected points to a real disconnect between the real economy and global finance.
The Shabaab - a militia that has dominated three-quarters of Somalia - are not the organised force many believe them to be. In fact, it is a mistake to believe they are a single fighting unit at all, a French expert told FRANCE 24.
The Gabonese electoral commission has proposed to hold the presidential election on August 30. One of the candidates is Ali Bongo, assuming the ticket left vacant by his father Omar Bongo, who died June 8.
Revealed by the French media, denied at first by Libreville before being confirmed, Omar Bongo’s death might alter relations between Paris and African nations: analysis by Central Africa expert Antoine Glaser.
A Ukranian sings for Russia, an Israeli-Jew and Arab perform a duet, Georgia is out but Turkey is in… The 2009 edition of the Eurovision music contest, taking place in Moscow, may be politically loaded but music will help soften the mood.
The Indian defence ministry announced Thursday that it would not be ordering the Rafale military plane by Dassault. The contract, which would have been one of France's biggest defence deals, was worth 12 billion dollars for 126 planes.
On April 4, Somali pirates kidnapped a French family travelling to Kenya on a yacht. The French Navy said it had given the crew of the Tanit "repeated warnings" to change course before it was too late.
Less than three weeks from the G20 summit, several countries have announced that they will relax their banking secrecy laws. Christian Stoffaës, a professor at Paris-Dauphine University, comments on the situation.
The Victoria, a ship chartered by the World Food Programme, leaves the Kenyan port of Mombasa bound for Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, with French frigate Floreal in its wake.
