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The Netherlands Remembers MH17 Victims on 10th Anniversary of the Tragedy A decade has passed since the tragic downfall of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine. The Netherlands held a poignant ceremony to honor the 298 lives lost. The event drew together family members and officials from Malaysia, Australia, Britain, Belgium, and Ukraine. On July 17, 2014, MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was downed while skirmishes unfolded between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists, preluding…

Jail Time for Just Stop Oil Protesters: A Detailed Breakdown Five activists, including the co-founder of Just Stop Oil, have been given a combined sentence of 21 years for orchestrating protests that brought the M25 motorway in London to a standstill. The individuals involved—Roger Hallam (58), Daniel Shaw (38), Louise Lancaster (58), Lucia Whittaker De Abreu (35), and Cressida Gethin (22)—decided to create traffic chaos by having demonstrators scale gantries over the motorway for four consecutive days in November 2022.…

One facet turns in Somalia. The mandate for Amisom, the African Union's peacekeeping mission within the nation, expires this week. The UN Security Council will vote on Wednesday, March 30, to switch it with one other mission referred to as ATMIS (African Union…

Three years ago, on March 23, 2019, this Fulani village of Ogossagou near Bankass in central Mali was attacked by gunmen. Traditional dozo hunters for the most part. 160 civilians were killed. Less than a year later, on February 14, 2020, the village was the…

In the Comoros, the previous governor of the island of Anjouan was dropped at justice and sentenced on Sunday to 12 years in jail for undermining nationwide unity, collaborating in a insurgent motion and disrupting public order.…

France commemorates on Saturday the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Evian agreements which recognized the independence of Algeria during a ceremony at the Élysée. The bilateral relationship over the decades that followed was marked by episodes of turbulence and rapprochement. In the 60 years since Algeria gained independence from France, it has gone through multiple crises with…

A member of the ruling party surprises everyone. While the Congolese political class has its eyes fixed on the next election law that will govern the next election, Steve Mbikayi, a former opponent who switched to Joseph Kabila's camp then Felix Tshisekedi's…

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…

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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.