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Senegal’s three-day general strike entered its second day on Thursday, with unions pressing the government to honour agreements on pay, pensions and working conditions amid a deepening economic crisis.

With control of the United States Congress at stake in the country's 3 November elections, candidates and their backers are pouring billions into the campaign.

A decade after Cameroon’s deadliest rail disaster killed 79 people and injured more than 500, survivors are still living with serious injuries, some compensation remains unpaid and an appeal against the convictions over the crash has yet to be heard.

Images of young people looting shops and setting fire to public buildings in French cities last weekend have travelled around the world.

Global warming is now set to breach the 1.5C target limit set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement, after decades of insufficient climate action, the United Nations Environment Programme has warned.

French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected claims that France was invaded by migrants and Islamists during last weekend's unrest, accusing foreign leaders of campaigning at the country's expense.

Rescue teams were on Wednesday searching north-eastern France for the navigator of a French air force jet, after the pilot died in a crash on Tuesday night in bad weather.

Paris Saint-Germain could be without Khvicha Kvaratskhelia for the rest of the season after the winger tore his ACL in the Champions League win against Barcelona and Ousmane Dembélé faces weeks out too, the club said on Wednesday.

More than19 million people in Afghanistan are expected to face acute food insecurity during the coming winter, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

Paris Saint-Germain head coach Luis Enrique on Wednesday played down his side's 100 percent start to the defence of their Champions League title after his players ended Barcelona's 11-game winning run with a 4-2 victory at the Parc des Princes.

France’s Parliament has unanimously approved the symbolic repeal of the Code Noir and related legislation governing slavery in its former colonies, closing a legal chapter left formally unresolved since abolition in 1848.

France's prime minister plans to meet unions on Wednesday to discuss security and has vowed a "massive" police deployment at protests, following riots in the past week that led to curfews and arrests.

The European Union has unveiled a new Arctic strategy, setting out plans to strengthen its presence in the far north as melting sea ice opens new shipping routes and competition intensifies over resources, infrastructure and security.

The French territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific signed a strategic partnership with the European Union on Tuesday, paving the way to new markets and investment for its struggling nickel industry.

Fifteen years ago today, Moamer Kadhafi was captured and killed by rebel fighters, ending 42 years of one-man rule over Libya.

French President Emmanuel Macron has secured the delivery of an additional 200,000 tonnes of diesel per month from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain during a tour of the Gulf, the French presidency said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Tuesday announced that France will impose new curfews where required, after the measures introduced in several cities the previous day had "helped keep the night calm".

Canada's province of Alberta rejected a plan to hold a binding independence referendum, results showed Tuesday, a setback for separatists backed by allies of US President Donald Trump.

Japan has launched a spacecraft to Mars’s two small moons in a mission that could shed light on their mysterious origins.

A self-proclaimed Kenyan preacher and his associates were on Monday found guilty of murdering 191 people, mostly children, in an infamous starvation cult.

A full explanation of the decision to award the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations to Senegal or Morocco will be made at the end of November, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Monday.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has asked regional authorities to impose partial curfews in some cities as the government seeks to restore order, after a weekend of protests over the cost of living and the state of education led to rioting and loo…

Newly crowned men's European table tennis champion Félix Lebrun was on Monday preparing to test his skills against the world's best players in his hometown at the WTT Champions Montpellier.

The trial over the murder of three men whose bodies were found burned in 2020 has opened in southern France, in a case illustrating the extreme violence of the country’s drug gangs.

The Malian army and its Russian paramilitary allies have killed civilians in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a new report, which also confirms the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group (JNIM) summarily executed Malian soldiers

France’s interior minister Laurent Nunez has acknowledged that security forces lost control in some major cities during violent protests over the state of education and the cost of living on Saturday, recognising that police had failed to anticipate the s…

Almost 200 countries will be in attendance at the United Nations Biodiversity Cop17, opening in Armenia on Monday, to take stock of faltering progress towards the UN’s 2030 nature targets.

French President Emmanuel Macron begins a three-day tour of the Gulf on Monday aimed at securing additional fuel supplies for France while strengthening economic, defence and security ties with four key regional partners.

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Sunday to bring the full weight of the justice system down on the rioters who left a trail of destruction in towns and cities throughout France during protests on Saturday over the poor state of schools and the ri…

A court in Mombasa, Kenya, will on Monday deliver a long-awaited verdict in the Shakahola sect murder trial.

Five months into the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there is still no approved vaccine against the rare Bundibugyo strain that has now caused more than 4,000 deaths.

French authorities and businesses were on Sunday assessing the extent of the damage after demonstrations involving 550,000 people nationwide descended into violence and looting.

A stone's throw from the Jardin du Luxembourg on Paris's Left Bank, the Faculty of Pharmacy is home to a botanical garden which serves as an educational resource for students and a space for research – as well as a place where visitors can find biodiversi…

With public health services stretched thin, women in Zimbabwe sometimes struggle to access reliable information about pregnancy and childbirth.

A wave of deadly attacks on cargo ships in the waters of NATO members Bulgaria and Romania has jolted the alliance into calling an emergency meeting on Black Sea security.

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday hit out at the decision of the US President Donald Trump to block sanctions on Russia claiming the move rewarded the country's leader Vladimir Putin.

Madagascar marks one year on Saturday since military leader Michael Randrianirina took power following weeks of youth-led protests that brought down elected president Andry Rajoelina.

France and Germany have agreed a deal to safeguard Europe's automobile industry and stave off fierce competition from Chinese electric car companies.

Two Nigerien intelligence officers were forced to leave France last month, French daily Le Monde has revealed, with one agent suspected of monitoring opposition figures on French soil.

Gianni Infantino's bid to remain the head of world football's governing body Fifa gathered strength on Friday after backing from African executives and reports that a potential rival was pulling out of the race for the job as the game's most powerful admi…

The European Union has denied that pressure from the United States prompted it to withdraw its logo from a major conference on disinformation in Lithuania, insisting that the decision was instead linked to the way organisers had drawn up the programme.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to South Africa's Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, the judge who headed the Rwanda genocide tribunal and last year presided over a UN commission that accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.

France has confirmed it is holding talks with the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to facilitate the deportation of Afghan nationals who are in the country illegally and considered a security threat.

France's government has promised 3,000 replacement teachers for struggling secondary schools and pledged to give pupils a greater say in education policy in a bid to quell nearly three weeks of student protests.

Longstanding anger over unaffordable housing in Spain has become a central issue in next month’s general election, as rising rents, a shortage of public housing and a boom in tourist rentals put growing pressure on households.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in France but who's using it, and how?

In an interview with RFI, Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza has accused France of sending a “very dangerous” signal that the West is ready to return to “business as usual” with Vladimir Putin, after the French government pushed for European Un…

Wildlife populations monitored across Africa have declined by an average of 80 percent over the past five decades, according to a major new assessment by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which warns that changes to energy, food and financial systems…

The United States is violating international law by deporting migrants to African countries where they have no ties, NGO Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, accusing Washington of using deportation to remote destinations as a deterrent to immigration.

Ethiopian drone strikes have targeted Eritrean forces who had reached a northern Tigrayan city, a conflict monitor and witnesses said on Thursday, amid fears of a wider regional war.