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MOGADISHU (Xinhua) — The heart of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, bustled with activity on Tuesday as the Chinese Embassy rolled out the red carpet to celebrate 75 years since the birth of the People's Republic of China.

Kitchener Resident Sentenced to Eight Years for Manslaughter and Kidnapping On November 26, 2019, tragedy struck when 20-year-old Irshad Sabriye was shot multiple times. His lifeless body was eventually discovered abandoned along Highway 7/8, a grim scene that startled the local community. Abdulla Haredo, now 28, stood trial and was found guilty of manslaughter and kidnapping for his involvement in Sabriye’s death. During a court hearing on Wednesday, he received an eight-year prison sentence. Remarkably, Haredo has…

Thursday's China-Africa forum produced a myriad of agreements between China and more than 50 African countries in areas ranging from industry and agriculture to natural resources and investment, including a pledge by Chinese leader Xi Jinping that the economic powerhouse would allocate $50 billion to the continent over the next three years.

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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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…

A young Guinean who tested positive for the Ebola virus in Côte d'Ivoire after arriving two weeks ago has recovered from the disease, the Ivorian Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. “We performed two biological…