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In the Central African Republic, singer Ydille Mamba recently wrapped up two unique concerts in Bangui on Friday, April 26th. These shows, held at Alliance Française, aimed to celebrate her 20-year career and showcase lesser-known traditional Central African songs and music styles to the global audience.

On April 27, 1994, all South Africans were urged to join the first free elections. Nelson Mandela was set to win, marking the end of the apartheid regime. A new Constitution would then be drafted, safeguarding all South Africans and hailed as the most forward-thinking in Africa. This foundational law is upheld by the Constitutional Court, a significant landmark in downtown Johannesburg and in the hearts of its residents.

On April 25, 1974, young captains rebelled in Portugal, overthrowing the Salazar dictatorship and paving the way for African colonies independence. However, many are unaware that it was African freedom fighters who wore down the Portuguese colonial army and triggered the April captains' uprising in Lisbon. Mario Cissoko was one of them.

In Morocco, content creator Mohamed Reda Taoujni was sentenced to four years in prison by the Agadir Court of Appeal. He was accused of defaming the Minister of Justice, Adbellatif Ouahbi, by suggesting possible connections to an international drug trafficking ring.

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram captured 276 girls from a school in Chibok. Unfortunately, 80 girls remain missing. The Nigerian government has struggled to prevent further abductions by Boko Haram and criminal groups. Many more children have been taken since the initial kidnapping.

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…

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.

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