Africa

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…

Clentélex is a 23-year-old Ivorian who has overcome obstacles. He grew up in a poor neighborhood of Abidjan. Unlike many of his contemporaries drawn to violence and crime, Clentélex used comedy as his weapon of choice. He won his native country's top comedy prize, an award that allowed him to perform at the prestigious Montreux Comedy Festival in Switzerland. Noémie Mayaudon and Jean-Charles Guichard tell us her incredible story in this documentary.

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…

A delegation from ECOWAS is expected this Friday, March 18, 2022 in Bamako. The West African Economic Organization's mediator for Mali, Goodluck Jonathan, will once again try to agree with the transitional authorities on an election timetable for a return to…

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.

Ferdinand Kambere, who has already spent more than two months in Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa, was charged with attempted murder of a PPRD comrade. The prosecutor had requested the death penalty, but the court chose a lighter sentence, which the previous…

In tonight's edition: The leader of the continent's largest crude oil producer apologizes to the country for fuel shortages. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said the race was also on to resolve a national grid outage. Meanwhile, our reporters follow a…

Controversy arose in Kenya this week over the authorities' silence on the deaths of troopers from the African Union's mission in Somalia in an assault. The brother of one among the troopers killed occurs to be a former presidential candidate who has publicly…

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In Guinea, six months after the coup that overthrew Alpha Condé, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution has decided to carry the vote of the victims of the old regime. A first meeting took place at the organization's headquarters yesterday,…