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Even though aid is coming in slower than hoped, Liberia’s leader says she sees a decline in the crisis that has claimed 3 900 in West Africa.
More than 100 000 people displaced by religious violence in Central African Republic are in urgent need of basic supplies at the Bangui airport camp.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, an ex-prime minister with a reputation for firmness, has won Mali’s presidential election.
Following a decisive second-round presidential vote Francois Hollande is expected to be voted into power in Frances presidential elections.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande will clash in their only television debate, seen as the conservative incumbent’s last chance to turn the odds.
President Nicolas Sarkozy says he would bar some Muslim preachers from entering France as part of a crackdown after shootings there by an extremist.
Germany is easing its opposition to a bigger European bailout fund, smoothing the way for the world’s leading economies to secure near
Vague pledges and a lack of action by G7 countries underscored differences between Europe and the US and a lack of room to manoeuvre.
Leading world economies agreed to put the policies of seven nations under a microscope as part of a plan to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.
Opposing views about how to reform the global monetary system were laid bare at a meeting of the top 20 economies on Thursday.
Claude Chabrol, one of France’s most eminent film directors and a pioneer of the influential New Wave style, died on Sunday at the age of 80.
The EU should demand that Italy stop forcing African migrant boats back to Libya, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied on Monday that scandals over his private life had caused a rift with the powerful Catholic Church.
Protesters threw fire bombs at police outside Parliament on Wednesday during a strike which paralysed Greece and piled pressure on the government.
Hundreds of demonstrators threw fire bombs at police, smashed shop windows and burned vehicles in Greece’s two main cities on Sunday.
Record oil prices should mean boom times for Nigeria’s oil industry, but rising militant violence, labour unrest and years of government neglect cast a shadow over its future.…
Royal Dutch Shell shut down more of its production in Nigeria after a fresh militant attack on Saturday on a flowstation in the restive Niger Delta, where local militants have…
Climate change in Africa could leave 250-million more people short of water by 2020, spurring conflicts and threatening stability on the world’s poorest continent, the 2007 Nobel…
Britain and other Western donors need to spend money on strengthening African Parliaments to ensure they can hold governments to account for how aid is being spent, a group of…
Centuries before European colonialists carved up Africa, Arab traders marvelled at the profits to be reaped in the fabled lands south of the Sahara. ”In the country of Ghana,…
