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Somalia has become caught up in the US election campaign thanks to Donald Trump, writes Ismail Einashe.

At least 166 people have died during violent demonstrations that roiled Ethiopia in the days following the murder of popular singer Hachalu Hundessa, police said Saturday.

Protests over the killing of Hachalu Hundessa spread from Oromia, where he was seen as a hero.

Insecurity has worsened in the north-west as kidnapping for ransom becomes a lucrative trade.

In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune says there is an opportunity to achieve “appeased relations” with France. He believes that French President Emmanuel Macron is “honest” and has a “clean record” with regard to the colonial past.

Militant group al-Shabab said it carried out the bomb explosion in the town of Baidoa.

The BBC’s Amensisa Ifa was close to Ethiopian protest singer Hachalu Hundessa, who was shot dead on Monday.

Unidentified armed men massacred 31 civilians in simultaneous attacks on several Mali villages this week, then killed nine soldiers responding to the assault as violence surges in the country’s conflict-wracked centre.

In tonight’s show, a Paris appeals court has rejected a request to reopen an investigation into the 1994 death of Rwanda’s then president in a plane crash – that crash was a key trigger in the genocide of the Tutsis. Also, major political turmoil continues in Mali with ongoing calls from the opposition for the resignation President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. And elephants are dying in numbers much higher numbers than usual in Bostwana, a tragic phenomenom that is confounding […]

Nearly 400 elephants have been found dead in Botswana in recent weeks but local authorities and wildlife experts are struggling to find an explanation, with disease and poisoning among the possible causes.

Former London Marathon winner Wilson Kipsang is banned for four years for anti-doping rule violations.

Algeria on Friday received the skulls of 24 resistance fighters decapitated during colonial France’s conquest of the North African country that had been lying in storage in a Paris museum.

The motorcycle taxi rider’s bike had been seized for carrying passengers against coronavirus restrictions.

The coronavirus pandemic has halted Nollywood productions, costing millions of dollars.

A Paris appeals court rejected a request to reopen an investigation into the 1994 death of Rwanda’s president Juvenal Habyarimana, which sparked a genocide that killed 800,000 people, lawyers said Friday.

How open map data is filling in the world’s missing maps and helping trace the spread of disease.

In tonight’s show, two NGOs publish a damning report suggesting mining tycoon Dan Gertler could be evading US sanctions in DR Congo. Global Witness and the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa say there could be a possible international money laundering scheme involved. In Cameroon, health officials urge parents to vaccinate their children against measles. A deadly outbreak of the highly contagious disease has spread to 8 of 10 regions there. And Somalia’s national theatre […]

An Algerian court on Thursday granted prominent opposition figure and leader of the anti-government protest movement Karim Tabbou release from jail.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday said France will return the remains of 24 resistance fighters who were killed during its colonisation of the North African country.

Ten years on from being a handball away from making the World Cup semi-finals, two of Ghana’s players still feel the pain.

In tonight’s edition: Dozens are killed in Ethiopia in unrest that erupted following the killing of a popular Oromo singer earlier this week. Protests are held outside of Witts University in Johannesburg by crowds objecting to the continent’s first Covid-19 vaccine trials being held in the city. And Benin turns towards its troubled past as a major slave trading port. Some object to calls for sites named after slave traders to be rebranded saying that they play an important part in […]

South Africa’s province Gauteng has become the epicentre of coronavirus cases in the country.

Ethiopia deployed its military in the capital Addis Ababa on Wednesday to quell a second day of unrest following the killing of a popular protest singer that has left more than 80 dead.

Poverty and poor internet have made it impossible for some students to continue with their studies.

Essama Andre has repeatedly attacked the statue of French war hero Gen Philippe Leclerc in Doula.

In tonight’s edition: Belgium’s King Philippe expressed his “deepest regrets” for the harm done during Belgian colonial rule in DR Congo, in a first for his country. Philippe made his remarks in a letter to the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, on the 60th anniversary of Congo’s independence on June 30, 1960. And in Belgium, young people are working towards reclaiming their Congolese identity as remains of colonial rule are still dotted […]

At least 10 people died and more than 80 were wounded when the killing of a popular singer triggered blasts and protests in Ethiopia’s capital and the surrounding Oromiya region on Tuesday, police and a doctor said.

While the murder of George Floyd in the United States has revived anti-racism movements around the world, it has also stirred up the painful history of colonialism. In this special edition, FRANCE 24 takes a look at the history behind the tumultuous relationship between Europe and Africa. Reports from South Africa, Nigeria, Cameroon and DR Congo explore the complicated collective memory of former colonial powers and the nations they controlled. 

DR Congo’s first elected prime minister Patrice Lumumba is still celebrated for the role he played for the independence.

Malawi’s new leader, Lazarus Chakwera, had to square his church leadership with secular ambitions.

With museums reopening in July, the return of looted cultural objects is in the spotlight again.