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Celebrating Benin's Vodun heritage
Celebrating Benin's Vodun heritage

Celebrating Benin’s Vodun heritage

For the second year in a row, the city of Ouidah in Benin is playing host to Vodun Days - a celebration of the region's long spiritual traditions. France 24's correspondent Lilaafa…
1 week ago
Sudan: MSF suspends operations at key Khartoum hospital
Sudan: MSF suspends operations at key Khartoum hospital

Sudan: MSF suspends operations at key Khartoum hospital

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is pausing activities at a main hospital in Sudan's capital after repeated violence. It says staff and patients have both suffered attacks amid the country's civil war.…
2 weeks ago
Chad investigates foiled attempt to storm presidential compound
Chad investigates foiled attempt to storm presidential compound

Chad investigates foiled attempt to storm presidential compound

A foiled attack on Chad's presidential compound overnight was carried out by a group of two dozen armed "ill-intentioned individuals" who were neutralized by security forces, a public prosecutor said on Thursday,…
2 weeks ago
Kenya: five abducted youths freed amid uproar
Kenya: five abducted youths freed amid uproar

Kenya: five abducted youths freed amid uproar

Four young Kenyan men who disappeared last month in a spate of abductions targeting government critics were freed on Monday, local media and rights groups said.The kidnappings have dominated news and political…
2 weeks ago
Ivory Coast shifts French military partnership
Ivory Coast shifts French military partnership

Ivory Coast shifts French military partnership

French troops will soon begin departing Ivory Coast, raising questions about what France's military presence in West Africa will look like, and how Ivory Coast will fill the security void.…
2 weeks ago
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