RFI    Senegal’s new leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye has called for a rethink of the country’s relationship with the EU during a visit by European Council President Charles Michel.

RFI    A French court on Monday cleared the eldest daughter of Gabon’s former leader Omar Bongo of accepting bribes to help secure public contracts in the country.

RFI    The United States will withdraw its troops from Niger, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters late on Friday, adding an agreement was reached between US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Niger’s leadership.

RFI    Chad goes to the polls next month for a presidential election hoped to mark a return to democratic rule three years after military leaders seized power. Growing Russian influence in Africa, meanwhile, is shaking up historical ties to France. Transitional ruler Mahamat Idriss Deby, who is running to...

RFI    Lawmakers in Togo approved changes to its constitution on Friday linked to presidential term limits and how presidents are elected, which some opposition politicians and civil society groups have denounced as a constitutional coup.

Melissa Chemam    People in African countries primarily migrate within the continent rather than trying to leave it, new analysis shows. A report by the International Organisation for Migration IOM and the African Union seeks to counter misconceptions and find better solutions to help people migrate safely.

Melissa Chemam with RFI    After a year of war, millions of people in Sudan are facing displacement, violence and hunger. While the world has pledged billions in aid, the United Nations says the crisis can only be solved if Sudanese people are given the means to rebuild and produce their own food again.

Zeenat Hansrod    Africa’s millionaire population is expected to rise by percent within the next years, accordig to the Africa Wealth Report, published this week.

RFI    Kenya began three days of mourning on Friday after its defence chief and nine other senior military officers were killed in a helicopter crash, the latest accident to blight the nation’s military.

Melissa Chemam    The delayed March presidential vote in Senegal confirmed the country remains a beacon of democracy in a region facing increasing instability. RFI looks at how the peaceful victory of Bassirou Diomaye Faye and mentor Ousmane Sonko stands to influence the politics of neighbouring Sahel nations.

RFI    Burkina Faso has expelled three French diplomats for subversive activities , according to a foreign ministry note seen by AFP on Thursday, in a further sign of mounting tensions between the African state and its former colonial master.

RFI    A UN donor conference held in Geneva had hoped to raise significant pledges towards a billion target million to address the critical humanitarian situation in Ethiopia over the next three months. However pledges fell short at million.

Melissa Chemam with RFI    A year ago, on April, the civil war in Sudan began. The violence resulted in the displacement of millions. Now, as food shortages get worse, aid is not reaching many of the displaced. In response, France and Germany are hosting a conference in Paris, Monday, to try to raise funds for victims of...

Zeenat Hansrod    In Ethiopia, the killing of a senior politician from the Oromo Liberation Front has already led to protests and is likely to aggravate tensions in Oromia, the country’s largest and most populous region. At the same time, all parties agree that his death is a great loss for Ethiopia.

Melissa Chemam with RFI    As South Africa heads toward general elections set for May, the country’s dominant political party, the African National Congress ANC , finds itself dogged by allegations of deep rooted corruption.

Amanda Morrow with RFI    Southern Africa is on the brink of a hunger crisis after an historic drought decimated crops during the peak October to March farming season one year after the region was pummelled by tropical storms.

RFI    Political parties and civil society groups in Mali have rejected the suspension of political activities by the country’s military rulers and plan to mount a legal challenge to the order from the junta which also banned media coverage of political parties.

RFI    Zimbabwe’s new gold backed currency is designed to fight inflation and wean the economy off the US dollar, but it has suffered a chaotic start with shops accepting only US dollars on Tuesday and Zimbabweans queuing up outside banks for hours to access their savings.

RFI    Thirty eight bodies, including those of children, have been found after a shipwreck off the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday.

RFI    A court in South Africa has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma can stand in next month’s general elections, overturning a decision by electoral authorities to bar him over a criminal conviction.

RFI    A French NGO has filed a complaint seeking a probe into the deaths of two French officers killed in the early days of the Rwanda genocide.

Melissa Chemam with RFI    As Rwandans began to commemorate the painful memories of the genocide against the Tutsis, on Sunday French President Emmanuel Macron released a video message from France.

RFI    Rwanda has paid solemn tribute to victims of the genocide, years after ethnic Hutu extremists killed more than , Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said the international community had failed his country by not intervening to prevent the massacre.

Melissa Chemam    Rwanda has begun days of commemorations to mark the th anniversary of the genocide, in which , people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by Hutu militias.

RFI    France will aim to renew ties with Africa and build balanced partnerships that are beneficial to the continent, the country’s foreign affairs minister Stephane Sejourné said Saturday in Kenya at the start of his first visit to the continent.

Melissa Chemam    France’s relationship with Rwanda is gradually improving as French authorities acknowledge the country’s responsibility in the Rwandan genocide, which began years ago this week. An estimated , people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, died in the violence perpetrated by Hutus a faction that...

RFI    Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has named a breakaway government, appointing a host of fresh faces to top roles following his landslide election win last month.

RFI    Somalia has expelled the Ethiopian ambassador, ordered the closure of two Ethiopian consulates and recalled its own ambassador over Addis Ababa’s plan to build a naval base in the breakaway region of Somaliland.

Melissa Chemam with RFI    President Emmanuel Macron believes France and its Western and African allies could have stopped Rwanda’s genocide, but lacked the will to halt the slaughter of an estimated , people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, the presidency has said.

Zeenat Hansrod with RFI    Togo’s opposition has called for a three day mass protest against the delay of this month’s parliamentary elections due in two weeks which the government said would allow for a second reading of a contested constitutional reform.