A top Champagne-maker fears the market may be flooded with fakes after thieves robbed 16,000 labels, along with 3,700 bottles, from his winery in eastern France.
A French left-wing Member of Parliament is calling on the government to shed light on the assassination of Burkina Faso president Thomas Sankara in a coup d’état 25 years ago.
20/01/2013
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France - Mali - Russia - Canada - Germany
The French military says its troops are progressing further into Islamist-held territory in northern Mali as Russia and Canada offer logistical support to France’s military intervention.
27/12/2012
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France - Central African Republic - United States
The President of the Central African Republic has called on France and the United States to help push back advancing rebel fighters, but the idea has been flatly rejected by the French ...
Hundreds of protesters angry at a rebel advance in the Central African Republic threw stones and tore down the French flag at the French embassy in the capital, Bangui.
Three French soldiers who smothered a man to death with a plastic bag during a peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire were given suspended sentences by a French court on Friday.
Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz flies back to France Friday for medical tests less than a week after leaving, having undergone 40 days recovering from wounds received when a soldier ...
France is to hand over its archives on a massacre of African soldiers fighting for France in World War II to Senegal, President François Hollande announced on his visit to Senegal on ...
The Secretary General of the Francophonie organisation which groups together French-speaking nations around the world, says that 85 per cent of French speakers around the world will be in Africa ...
