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Clashes between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary have killed at least 25 civilians in the North Darfur town of El-Fasher, a pro-democracy lawyers committee said Tuesday. FRANCE 24's Olivia Bizot reports from Nairobi, Kenya.
1 day ago
The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years before the genocide in Srebrenica and eight years before the war in Kosovo, Vukovar was the first city in the former Yugoslavia to suffer ethnic cleansing, in 1991. More than 30 years later, reconciliation between local Serbs and Croats is hindered by impunity for war crimes and the inability to agree on a common version of events.
2 days ago
The Iranian attack was largely repelled and as such is a "dramatic failure", Barak said. As a result, he believes "there is no need and no will to go into full-scale war" with Iran.
4 days ago
After a year of war, Sudan is dealing with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. As more local and international actors get involved, the outlook remains grim.
11 Apr
After six months, proof that Israel’s longest war since the 1980s is winding down or is the weekend announcement of troops withdrawing from southern Gaza the calm before a whole new storm?
6 Apr
As the war in Gaza enters its six month – and more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed – FRANCE 24 spoke to the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "wants to have a perpetual war", Zomlot told FRANCE 24.
2 Apr
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba's visit to India comes as Kyiv tries to drum up support from Global South countries for a planned peace conference in Switzerland that Russia has rejected.
21 Mar
Russia says it has full control of the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka after Ukraine withdrew, adding that some Ukrainian troops are still holed up in a vast Soviet-era coke plant following one of the most intense battles of the war.
17 Mar
UN aid chief says 730,000 Sudanese children are thought to suffer from 'severe' malnutrition. Nearly five million people in Sudan are at risk of “catastrophic” hunger in the coming months, the United Nations has warned, calling for the country's warring parties to allow aid deliveries.
9 Mar
Five months, 30,000 Palestinians killed and an Israeli prime minister whose only plan seems to be to reoccupy Gaza indefinitely. This time, has the US had enough?
1 Mar
There’s no good way to sugarcoat setbacks. On the second anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine conceded that its summer counter-offensive had stalled and that in pulling back from Avdiivka, its forces were both outmanned and outgunned.
27 Feb
Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to ensure his country remains in a permanent state of war. That's the premise of a new book, published by a French political scientist as the world has been marking the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Croatia is holding polls marked by a bitter campaign between the present heads of state and government as candidates. The elections could determine whether the EU nation moves toward Moscow or remains pro-West.
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A Kenyan national flag flies at half mast in Nairobi on April 19, 2024, in honor of its defense chief General Francis Omondi Ogolla and nine other senior military officers who were killed in a helicopter crash.
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Three French diplomats were given 48 hours to leave Burkina Faso on Thursday after being declared persona non grata by the ruling junta. The trio have been accused of "subversive activities", allegations that Paris denies. Relations between the two countries have been unravelling since 2022, when Burkina Faso saw its second coup in less than nine months.
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Following the arrest of suspected left-wing terrorist Daniela Klette in Berlin, investigators are now hoping for new insights into crimes committed by the Red Army Faction.
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China's National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday that the country's economy grew to the tune of 5.3 percent in the first three months of the year, ahead of economists' expectations. Manufacturing and infrastructure are fuelling that growth, while housing and domestic consumption are still a source of concern. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is on a three-day visit to China, Berlin's top trading partner