2023

Defending champions Morocco have withdrawn from the African Nations Championship after being refused a direct flight to hosts Algeria.

Benin’s main opposition on Thursday rejected the results of this week’s parliamentary election, claiming vote buying and fraud allowed allies of President Patrice Talon to… Read More »Benin opposition rejects election results, claiming fraud

FRANCE 24 spoke to Tirana Hassan, acting executive director of Human Rights Watch, which is publishing its annual report this week. Although the report reveals the grim picture… Read More »‘Strongmen are beginning to lose power’: acting Human Rights Watch chief

Unions representing French oil workers on Thursday called for strikes against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms, threatening a repeat of the refinery and depot closures… Read More »French union threatens refinery shutdowns, halt to oil deliveries to protest pension reform

The United Arab Emirates on Thursday named a veteran technocrat with experience in both renewable energies and the oil business to be the president of… Read More »UAE names head of national oil company to lead COP28 climate talks

As Russian strikes on Ukraine have intensified in recent months, Ukrainian authorities have set themselves the task of investigating Moscow’s war crimes against civilians. Our… Read More »Ukraine tracks Russian missiles as evidence of possible war crimes in Kharkiv

Crawley Council says the potential costs of housing more Chagos Islanders could be unaffordable.

The French and German foreign ministers arrived in Addis Ababa on Thursday on a mission to support a peace agreement signed last year to end… Read More »French, German foreign ministers arrive in Ethiopia to support Tigray peace agreement

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that fighting was still raging in Soledar, a key eastern frontline city that the Russian mercenary group Wagner earlier… Read More »Live: Fierce fighting continues in eastern Ukraine

President Joe Biden’s legal team has discovered additional documents containing classification markings, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The… Read More »Second batch of classified Biden documents found at another location