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.

RFI    In his first speech to the nation since his election as president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye said one of his first policy moves would be to audit the country’s oil, gas and mining sectors to root out corruption.

RFI    Uganda’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a bid to overturn its highly contentious Anti Homosexuality Act one of the toughest such laws in the world.

Melissa Chemam with RFI    In Senegal, in his first act as leader, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has appointed by his ally and key backer Ousmane Sonko as prime minister.

Melissa Chemam    Bassirou Diomaye Faye became Senegal’s youngest president, Tuesday, pledging systemic change, greater sovereignty and calm after years of turmoil in the country.

RFI    Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al Sisi was sworn in Tuesday for his third term as leader of the Arab world’s most populous nation, in the country’s new bn administrative capital in the desert east of Cairo.

RFI    The Democratic Republic of Congo has announced the nomination of its first woman prime minister, Judith Suminwa Tuluka. An economist, she takes over as prime minister from Jean Michel Sama Lukonde, following President Felix Tshisekedi’s re election on December.

Melissa Chemam with RFI    As Senegal prepares for the inauguration of president Bassirou Diomaye Faye this Tuesday, his native village of Ndiaganiao has already begun celebrating. RFI’s correspondent met with his father and inhabitants in the region of Mbour, one hundred kilometres to the west of the capital.

Melissa Chemam    Attacks by jihadists are on the rise in both Niger and Mali, where juntas are keen to hold on to power. The volatile situation in the Sahel region is casting a long shadow over future elections and the return to civilian rule, which now look increasingly distant.

RFI    Togo’s presidency has asked the parliament for a second reading of a controversial constitutional reform approved last week following public outcry over what opponents say is a ploy by President Faure Gnassingbé to hold onto power and extend his nearly two decade long rule.

Ngala Killian Chimtom    Of the , refugees who have fled to Cameroon from the Central African Republic, most arrived with painful memories of their lives in the CAR. But displacement has added to their trauma, say those living in the Gado Badgere refugee camp. Rife sexual violence and poor living conditions have left...