Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara demanded action Wednesday to combat migrant slave trading in Libya, as the issue dominated a Europe-Africa summit meant to focus on long-term growth and stability. Summit host Ouattara lashed slavery as a wretched drama which recalls the worst hours of human history. I would like to appeal to our sen ...

President Emmanuel Macron has promised a new start in France's relations with its former colonies in Africa, promising that Paris would no longer lecture or seek to intervene. AFP explains the issues in four questions: What are France's Africa ties? France was a colonial power which held sway over a vast swathe of territory in W ...

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara called Wednesday for all urgent measures to end migrant slave trading in Libya as he opened an Europe-Africa summit meant to focus on long-term economic growth and stability. The slavery revelations are casting a shadow over the Abidjan summit, which both sides hope will launch a deeper partnership to cr ...

BTA FM, a radio station located in the city of Labe, 450 km north of the Guinean capital Conakry, has been shut down for violating a presidential order to all radio stations not to interview a leading member of a striking teachers rsquo; union. Gendarmes reportedly stormed the premises on November 27, 2017, shortly after the lsquo;forbid ...

More than 80 African and European leaders will gather in the Ivory Coast on Wednesday to promote jobs and stability for Africa's exploding population, with some calling for a new Marshall Plan. The two-day summit in Abidjan opens as the European Union increasingly sees its fate linked to Africa's following the twin shocks of unprecedented migr ...

We are all sick. It's our health, and we are being conned, Moise Massala says angrily. The 82-year-old is a retired geochemist who used to work in a uranium mine in Gabon owned by French nuclear giant Areva. He and hundreds of other former workers say they fell ill from their work to extract the uranium -- a source of nuclear power and warh ...