North Africa

The BNP Paribas group is suspected of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan. This week, the victims of abuses by former President Omar el-Bashir's regime of French justice were heard. A judicial inquiry was launched in Paris two years…

If the Algerian war deeply affected a generation of Frenchmen, it is also because every family was confronted with it, by conscripts being sent from the contingent. About 1.5 million young people did all or part of their military service there, for what were…

From tonight's edition: Sixty years ago today, French and Algerian officials signed a peace accord, the Evian Accords, ending an 8-year war and paving the way for independence of Algeria. A 19-year-old girl says she was raped by Sudanese security forces on the…

The signing of the Évian Accords on March 18, 1962 paved the way for Algerian independence in July of the same year. But the agreements included a clause that allowed France to continue carrying out nuclear tests in the Algerian desert, causing widespread radioactive contamination of the soil and air. Sixty years later, the victims have not been properly compensated and the extent of the damage poorly assessed. Report by Karim Yahiaoui and Jennie Shin of FRANCE 24.

How can African companies be helped in the context of an international crisis? How to promote investment and trade on the continent despite the disorganization of the value chains on the continent? These are some of the assignments for International Finance Corporation (IFC), the leading development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. Its CEO, Makhtar Diop, gave an interview to RFI to describe his actions and his…

Sixty years after the Évian Accords ended Algeria's bloody war of independence, a look back at the role of women at this pivotal time. Professor Zahia Smail Salhi tells us how female combatants, informants and special agents played a key role in the National…

On March 19, 1962, the Evian Treaty put an end to the war in Algeria, leaving many wounds open. 60 years after this war that has never really said its name: "war of liberation", "civil war", "events" ... how to free the word and calm these wounded memories? A group of young people, who are said to be of the 3rd generation, contributed to it. "Tell Grandpa, how was Algeria", a good report by Éric Chaurin. Directed by: Olivier Roux. (Repeat)

It's been exactly six decades since the ink was signed on the Evian Accords, an agreement aimed at ending a nearly eight-year conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 Algerians. But France is still struggling to come to terms with its colonial and wartime heritage in Algeria. We are joined for Perspective by historian Jim House, senior lecturer and research director for French at the University of Leeds in the UK.

Under the Evian Agreement, March 18, 1962, Raymond Depardon was 19 years old. During the negotiations between France and the FLN, he was one of the rare photographers present during this historic event that ended the war. At the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA)…

Sixty years ago, representatives of the Algerian separatists and the French government signed an agreement in Evian aimed at ending more than seven years of war in Algeria. The conflict was violent, it did not end immediately with the agreements ... Above all,…