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Côte d'Ivoire will play a friendly match against the French team on March 25 at the Orange Vélodrome in Marseille. Patrice Beaumelle, coach of the Elephants, presented the list of 25 elements called to this meeting.…

In Mali, the Ministry of Territorial Administration publishes a press release announcing its intention to initiate proceedings to shut down the RFI and France 24 channels. France Médias Monde (FMM), the parent company of RFI and France 24, notes and regrets this…

Four Ugandan environmental activists have been obtained on the French National Assembly on Wednesday, March 16. They got here to attraction in opposition to TotalÉnergie's mega oil mission in Uganda. The firm intends to speculate in native firms and create…

The younger environmental activist, together with three different environmental activists, was obtained on the French National Assembly on Wednesday 16 March. They advocated the oil mega-project TotalÉnergies in Uganda and warned parliamentarians concerning the…

On March 18, 1962, the Évian Accords paved the way for Algeria's independence from France after more than seven years of an atrocious war. Sixty years later, the wounds of this bloody conflict are still deep, on both sides of the fracture. FRANCE 24 spoke to…

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Fréderic Bontems, special envoy for the Sahel at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stayed in Cotonou for 24 hours. This is his first assignment to Benin since taking office. With the many terrorist attacks registered in northern Benin, the country is of…

This is the first evidence of life since May 2021. The French journalist Olivier Dubois, who was abducted while reporting in Gao, northern Mali, on April 8, 2021, is shown in a video. Olivier Dubois, the only known French hostage in the world, is alone on…

As France prepares to withdraw its forces from Mali, the way may be open for talks between the Malian government and al-Qaeda-linked militants, a process that could bring the West African nation closer to peace. Mali, a landlocked nation of 21 million people, has fought to curb a brutal uprising that erupted in 2012, before spreading to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger. Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed and 2 million people displaced by the Sahel-wide conflict, in which Mali is…

France and its allies in a European force announced on Thursday that they would begin withdrawing troops from Mali after nearly 10 years of fighting an extremist uprising. A statement signed by France and its African and European allies said that "several obstacles" from the ruling junta meant that the conditions were no longer in place to operate in Mali. The decision concerns both France's Barkhane force in the Sahel and the European force Takuba, which Paris had tried to create together with its…