The suspected killer of slain Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has been arrested, Tunisian police say. The politician was murdered on February 6, throwing the country into political turmoil.
From restive towns near the Somalia border to delta villages wracked by deadly ethnic strife, Kenya’s Tana River flows through hotspots that are threatening to explode with the March 4 polls.
Kenya’s High Court cleared the way for Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential bid on Friday by refusing to rule in a case seeking to bar the ICC-charged politician from running for next month’s poll.
On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Markus Karlsson talks to the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. They discuss the interest of international investors when it comes to Africa and the upcoming presidential election in which Odinga is running.
A potent mix of politics, economics, old ethnic scores and new alliances has turned this remote corner of eastern Kenya into a cauldron of violence that has cast a shadow over the upcoming March 4 elections.
A rebel movement that didn’t even exist seven months grabs Goma. That’s hardly surprising in view of the unresolved simmering tensions at the border between DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.
A rebel movement that didn’t even exist seven months grabs Goma. That’s hardly surprising in view of the unresolved simmering tensions at the border between DR Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.
Nigeria has known other corruption scandals, but the latest one blows the whistle on a whopping $29 billion worth of siphoned gas revenues over ten years. François Picard’s panel looks at the foreign companies allegedly implicated and why France is being singled out for failing to crack down on corporate bribes to foreign officials.
A special edition of the France 24 Debate: an exclusive interview with the French President François Hollande followed by a debrief on Hollande's reasons for going to the summit of Francophone nations in Kinshasa; the jihadist threat out of northern Mali; the conflict in Syria... and the controversial role of Qatar both there and in France.
A special edition of the France 24 Debate: an exclusive interview with the French President François Hollande followed by a debrief on Hollande's reasons for going to the summit of Francophone nations in Kinshasa; the jihadist threat out of northern Mali; the conflict in Syria... and the controversial role of Qatar both there and in France.
