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14/05/2012 - France - Colombia

Colombia's Farc to free France 24 journalist to Hollande envoy

Colombia’s left-wing Farc guerrillas have said they will free France 24 journalist Roméo Langlois to a representative of newly elected French President François Hollande, a Red ...

14/04/2012 - France - Mexico

Hollande slammed for sending envoy to Mexico over Cassez affair

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé says he is “scandalised” by the decision by Socialist Party presidential candidate, François Hollande to send a former minister to ...

08/04/2012 - Mali - Algeria

Kidnapped Algerian diplomats freed in north Mali, report

The seven Algerian diplomats kidnapped in northern Mali have been freed, according to the Algiers-based El Watan newspaper.

08/03/2012 - France

Florence Cassez, French woman serving 60-year jail sentence in Mexico, may be released

Frenchwoman Florence Cassez, who was sentenced to 60 years in a Mexican jail for kidnapping, could be released immediately according to a justice at Mexico's Supreme Court after a motion to be ...

16/02/2012 - France

French prison governor jailed for affair with femme fatale inmate

A French prison governor who fell in love with a notorious inmate has been jailed and fined for giving her preferential treatment.

Jihad movement targets West Africa
23/12/2011 - African news explained

Jihad movement targets West Africa

A previously unknown organisation says it was behind the abduction of three Europeans in Algeria.

12/12/2011 - Mali - France

Kidnappers of French citizens in Mali arrested

The kidnappers of two French citizens in Hombori in Mali in November have been arrested on Malian territory according to local security services.      

10/12/2011 - France - Mali

Al-Qaeda in Maghreb claims kidnap of two French men, three other Europeans

Al-Qaeda's north African wing has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two French citizens and three other Europeans in Mali last month.

26/11/2011

French press review 26 November 2011

Saturday’s French papers are dominated by President Sarkozy’s stinging attacks on the Socialist party’s nuclear energy reduction policy.

15/11/2011 - France - Somalia

Trial opens in Paris of six suspected Somali pirates

The first trial in France of alleged Somali pirates has opened in Paris.

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