Politics

Long portrayed as the “showcase” of West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire descended into civil war on the night of September 19, 2002. Behind the crackle...

Since September 25, 2025, Madagascar has been gripped by a wave of social unrest that caught the authorities off guard. What began as a...

On October 15, 1987, gunfire erupted across Ouagadougou. Within minutes, Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, fell under the bullets of his own comrades-in-arms....

Re-elected for an eighth term at the age of 92, Paul Biya is facing unprecedented backlash. Cities set ablaze, hundreds arrested, a people losing...

How Fourteen Powers Redrew a Continent and Prepared a Century of Fractures Between November 1884 and February 1885, the Berlin Conference brought together fourteen European...

```html On February 15, 2026, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama announced the upcoming submission of a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly aimed at...

On March 4, 2007, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, a major political agreement was signed between Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and the leader of the...

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. Behind the image of a...

The largest country in Africa, rich in hydrocarbons and strategically positioned between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, Algeria possesses many assets that could make...