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Football: Another away win keeps Burkinabe in World Cup race

Agence France-PresseJune 15, 2013 17:46
Africa Cup of Nations runners-up Burkina Faso won away for the second time in seven days Saturday to keep alive hopes of a first World Cup appearance. A 38th-minute goal from Aristide Bance gave the 'Stallions' a 1-0 triumph in Pointe Noire over Congo Brazzaville, who have seen a six-point Group E lead at the start of June shrink to just a single point.

Forced-begging: west Africa's new slave trade

April 15, 2013 23:30
On a tiny island a 20-minute ferry ride from the Senegalese capital Dakar, holidaymakers congregate around tour guides at the Maison des Esclaves museum to learn of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade. Yet few realise that in the religious schools dotted among their hotels modern-day slaveholders are abusing and starving thousands of west African children who are forced onto the streets to beg for their unscrupulous masters.

French economy minister heads for Franc zone ministers' meeting in Senegal

April 9, 2013 04:45
French Economy and Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici will on Monday head to Dakar, the capital of Senegal, to attend the finance ministers meeting of Franc zone, the ministry announced in a statement.

France launches major offensive on Mali Islamists

April 8, 2013 23:15
A French force of 1,000 soldiers in a major offensive has swept a valley thought to be a logistics base for Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists near the Malian city of Gao, an AFP journalist accompanying the mission reported. Operation Gustav, one of France's largest actions since its intervention in its former colony, involves dozens of tanks, helicopters and aircraft, said General Bernard Barrera, commander of the French land forces in Mali, on Monday.

France launches major offensive on Mali Islamists

April 8, 2013 07:46
A French force of 1,000 soldiers has begun a sweep of a river valley thought to be a logistics base for armed Islamists near the Malian city of Gao, an AFP journalist accompanying the mission said. Operation Gustav, one of France's largest actions since its intervention against insurgents in January, will involve dozens of tanks, helicopters, drones and airplanes, said General Bernard Barrera, commander of the French land forces in Mali.

France revives charred Mali market to 'win the peace'

April 7, 2013 00:02
After routing an Islamist insurgency in Mali early this year, France is making sure it also "wins the peace" in the west African state -- and the central market in the eastern city of Gao is acting as a symbol of that strategy. The once-bustling sprawl of vendors' covered stalls and stands on the banks of the Niger River was all but consumed by fire on February 21, when flames spread from sheds in the courtyard of the nearby town hall being used as cover by an infiltrating Islamist militia.

Rebooting Central African economy after latest coup a tall task

April 1, 2013 22:00
The new government has optimistically promised that business activity will resume on Tuesday, but getting the Central African Republic's economy back on its feet will be no easy task after the havoc wreaked by the country's latest coup, experts said. "You cannot decree a recovery," noted Serge-Alain Yabouet-Bazoly, a former minister and legal advisor for the Groupement Interprofessionnel de Centrafrique (GICA), one of two employer federations in the country.

France's Maurel & Prom confirms takeover contacts

March 28, 2013 11:30
PARIS (Reuters) - French oil producer Maurel et Prom <MAUP.PA> has had contacts about a possible takeover of the company, its chief executive said, without naming any potential buyers. The comment comes after the mid-sized company dismissed media speculation in June that Anglo-Dutch oil group Royal Dutch Shell <RDSa.L> had approached it about a possible takeover.

Mistrust in Mali for its soldiers in sandals

March 14, 2013 00:15
On the banks of the River Niger, mud-walled buildings festooned with tricolours mark out the ancient trading post of Gao, Mali's largest northern city where the French have been welcomed as heroes. It is barely two months since Mali's former colonial power sent troops in to take back its cities from Islamists who had seized power in a devastating push which saw them gain control of the war-torn west African country's entire north.

Benin claims to thwart coup attempt

March 3, 2013 16:00
Benin said Sunday that authorities have thwarted an attempt to oust President Thomas Boni Yayi and install a military regime in the west African nation. In a statement read to journalists, state prosecutor Justin Gbenameto said a colonel and businessman were arrested for plotting "to block the head of state from returning to Cotonou after his trip and to institute a military regime." Yayi, who recently completed a one-year term as chairman of the African Union, had travelled to Equatorial Guinea last month for a summit with South American leaders.
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