Countries from around the world set their sights Monday on a pivotal deal to curb plastic waste, a source of long-term pollution and worsening contamination of the ocean 39;s food chain. Thousands of delegates, business leaders and campaigners are in Nairobi for the five-day UN Environment Assembly, the top annual forum on the planet 39;s ...

French President Emmanuel Macron kicks off a 4-day trip to Africa this Monday starting with Djibouti. Tommorow he will move on to Ethiopia and then to Kenya on Wednesday 13th. The Elys eacute;e Palace has stressed the importance of this trip to African countries, namely those with which France does not enjoy traditional ties like it does with f ...

Radio France International 39;s (RFI) English language service will be taking part in the upcoming Paris Talks conference - a forum for open discussion on the future challenges facing humanity. The forum will consist of short, powerful and inspiring talks of up to 15 minutes, bringing together innovators from various disciplines ndash; bu ...

Guinea-Bissau voted Sunday in legislative elections it is hoped will end a protracted leadership deadlock in a country renowned for drug trafficking and instability. Polls closed at 1700 GMT and voting passed off without incident with Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, head of the ECOWAS observation mission, noting calm and discipline on the part of voter ...

A mid-flight engine failure forced an Air France A380 jet with more than 500 passengers on board to turn back to the Ivory Coast capital Abidjan where it landed without further incident early Sunday. We were flying over Niger (to Paris)... I saw a ball of flame for a few seconds and then a large bang on the left side of the aircraft, Baudelair ...

As Ghana 39;s urban landscape gently slides by the train window, Shaibu Amoah swells with pride. The 37-year-old has been helping to renovate railway lines in Accra since June, clearing debris and shovelling ballast in the hot sun. When the short line from Accra to the port of Tema finally reopened in January, Amoah was on the first pu ...

Voters in Guinea-Bissau went to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament in the hope of ending a protracted leadership deadlock in a country that has become renowned for drug trafficking and instability. I came to vote because I want the development of my country. I hope that the day passes off calmly, said Victor Pereira, 42. The o ...

The West African state of Guinea-Bissau was holding key legislative elections on Sunday aimed at ending a protracted political crisis. Here is some background: Four coups A former Portuguese colony and onetime important source of slaves for the Americas, the small country on Africa 39;s western bulge achieved independence i ...

Former South African president Jacob Zuma used the country 39;s intelligence services for his own political and personal interests, most notably against his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, a government report charges. Published Saturday on Ramaphosa 39;s initiative, the report of about 100 pages details serious breaches of the Constitution, ...

Detained Deputy Central Bank Governor of Liberia Charles Sirleaf was released from prison on Friday for health reasons after an application for his release was filed by his lawyers, according to the Liberia information ministry. ldquo;Charles Sirleaf is ordered to be removed from the Monrovia Central Prison to his home or any other place o ...

Eritrea on Friday joined citizens of more than 20 countries in celebrating International Women 39;s Day as a public holiday. The annual event strikes a particular chord for women in the Horn of Africa, who have struggled not only to obtain equal rights but independence. Hanna Simon, the Eritrean ambassador to France, says the fight for gender ...

As the world marked International Women's Day, Friday 8 March, France awarded its inaugural Simone Veil Prize in honour of the revered politician and Holocaust survivor who died in 2017. The prize, along with a purse of 100,000 was awaded to Cameroonian woman Aissa Doumara Ngatansou , who runs an organisation that helps victimes of rape and for ...

An American NGO defending journalists targeted South African radical leftist opposition leader Julius Malema on Saturday after he tweeted the personal phone number of a reporter who has since received a flood of threats. The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed grave concern about threats and harassment against veteran South African ...

Nearly half of women polled across English and French-speaking countries in West and Central Africa, have experienced gender-based violence while using social media, indirectly pushing them out of that media, according to a study conducted across 18 countries in both of those regions. ldquo;The sense of insecurity online plays a role in th ...

A survey in 11 emerging economies showed people in those countries happy to be connected with smartphones and social media, even if they worry about the impact of digital lifestyles on society and on children. The Pew Research Center report found the vast majority of adults in these countries have access to a mobile phone of some kind, with ...

Addis Ababa 7 March 2019 (ECA) nbsp; ldquo;When you have women in positions of leadership, business does better and there rsquo;s more innovation, more value creation and more profit, rdquo; said Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission of Africa (ECA).

On International Women 39;s Day, CPJ has highlighted the cases of female journalists jailed around the world in retaliation for their work. At least 33 of the 251 journalists in jail at the time of CPJ 39;s prison census are women. https://cdn.modernghana.com/images/content/38201981229 osjvn0y442 iwdgraphic.jpg ...

Voters in Guinea-Bissau are to elect a new parliament Sunday in the hopes of ending a three-year-old leadership deadlock in a country that has become more renowned for drug trafficking than its cashew nuts. The onetime Marxist ruling party PAIGC, which has run the poor West African country of some two million for most of the 45 years since winni ...

A New York federal court has dismissed a lawsuit by the Herero and Nama tribes seeking compensation from Germany for the genocide of their ancestors in what is now Namibia. In a 23-page judgment dated Wednesday, Judge Laura Taylor Swain said that the principle of sovereign immunity of a state applied, rendering the case inadmissible. Th ...

Comoros President Azali Assoumani survived an attempt on his life on Thursday as he crisscrossed the country drumming up support ahead of polls on March 24, his campaign director said. But the opposition insisted the incident on Anjouan island, which Azali 39;s team said left the president unscathed, was not at all credible . Tensions ...