The kidnapping of a French family in Cameroon on Tuesday has caused both concern and outcry. FRANCE 24’s Jonathan Walsh and Willy Bracciano spoke to locals as troops in Nigeria, where the hostages were taken, work towards their release.
At least 13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Islamist rebels were killed in clashes in northern Mali on Friday, the heaviest loss by African troops since the launch of a French-led military campaign there against militants six weeks ago.
At least five people were killed in the remote Malian town of Khalil on Friday after a car bomb exploded targeting members of the MNLA, a Tuareg-led separatist movement with close links to French forces fighting in the country.
Beauty and the beast... or the writer and the politician. One woman tells her story of a high-profile affair with none other than Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Also, as the French military hands over to Malian troops on the ground, the newspapers take a look at the consequences in the north of the country. And as France prepares to celebrate the crème de la crème of cinema at the Césars awards, the papers look at the state of the film industry.
Can Mali reconcile on its own, and can the country be left in the hands of an army accused of revenge killings on civilians? France 24 airs the story of three of the last Malian Arabs left in Timbuktu, who have been taken away by uniformed men and are still missing.
Can Mali reconcile on its own, and can the country be left in the hands of an army accused of revenge killings on civilians? France 24 airs the story of three of the last Malian Arabs left in Timbuktu, who have been taken away by uniformed men and are still missing.
At least five people were killed on Monday after militants including a suicide bomber attacked the compound of a senior government official in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Following an international conference on security in Libya held in Paris, Taoufik Mjaied meets Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. The spread of weapons from Muammar Gaddafi’s military stockpiles in the Sahel region has strengthened criminals groups and Islamist rebels. Ali Zeidan describes the work his government has accomplished so far to stop the flow of weapons from Libya and to secure its borders.
Syrian rebels captured a military base near Aleppo Tuesday, and stormed another that protects a major airport, expanding their northern zone of control. The news came as the UN put the death toll from Syria’s two-year old civil war at nearly 70,000.
It is now over a month since French forces entered Mali to expel radical Islamists from country’s north. President François Hollande has said French troops will begin withdrawing next month; he wants to hand over the mission to African forces as soon as possible. But fighting over the weekend in Gao is casting doubt over whether France’s military intervention is set to be so short-lived.
