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The 60th anniversary of the Evian Agreements was celebrated this Saturday, March 19, in France. A reception was held at noon in the Presidential Palace in Paris. Two hundred people had been invited by the French head of state, to mark the date of March 19,…

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…

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.

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)

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Sixty years ago, the Evian Agreement was signed by representatives of the French Government and those of GPRA, the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic. The next day, the ceasefire was established, eight years after the start of the war, and the…

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was Nigeria's first feminist figure in the first half of the 20th century. As a political leader, she stood up against the injustices against women in her region before working for her country's independence. Married to a teacher and Anglican pastor, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti freed himself from the conventions of the time. She becomes a public figure while raising her four children,…

Our series on resistant women takes us to Gabon to meet descendants of Queen Nzinga. She opposed Portuguese penetration in Angola in the 17th century. As a 43-year-old monarch, she fought hard to defend her kingdom against the slave trade. The fighting was so furious that some people fled Angola to Gabon. Among them, Vungu…

RFI witnessed the reunion between Laurent Gbagbo and his supporters at a former campaign headquarters in Cocody-Attoban on Thursday, June 17. In front of a crowd that won over his cause, the former president was short in his speech, asking "to mourn" first his "dead" and to speak "later on politics". With our special…

The migration routes that leave Africa lead either to other countries on the continent or to Europe, or - and it is less well known - to the United States. Congolese, Ugandans, Malays, Sierra Leoneans ... Many Africans arrive in Latin America and try to reach North America. Under the Trump administration, those who succeeded…