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Claire Rosemberg works from Paris, Ile-de-France. AFP journalist coordinating Africa copy in Paris. Previously Brussels, Senegal. Views here my own. Links, RTs not endorsements. Also tweeting @AFPAfrica Claire Rosemberg has over 362 followers on Twitter.
As African and European leaders head to Brussels for the EU-Africa summit, conflict and jihadist turmoil fears in the CAR are set to dominate talks.
EU nations have been working on a deal to reward Harare by lifting some of the bloc’s punishing sanctions against members of the regime.
Europe’s debt crisis threatens to spill over to Italy, Spain and beyond, throwing up a fresh challenge for EU finance gathered to solve the Greek fix.
The European Union and Japan agreed to start talks towards a multi-billion-euro free trade deallinking the world’s third biggest economy to the globe’
Western powers tightened the screws on Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, reaching out to his opponents and warning time is running out.
Africa squared up to fight for a better economic deal with the EU on Monday as Libya’s Moammar Gadaffi opened a summit in Tripoli.
Sudan announced it would boycott the African-European Union summit in Libya to "avoid embarrassment to Libya".
Europe slapped down France on Wednesday over its controversial expulsion of Roma Gypsies, threatening legal action.
A tsunami alert sent terrified Chileans running for higher ground on Wednesday, while a surge of troops finally brought order to Concepción.
Kicking kung-fu pandas and a chilling Brazilian vision of the apocalypse: the Cannes film festival kicked off on Wednesday blending fun with philosophy, and Hollywood…
Rembrandt and Rubens may be turning in their graves. The latest show at the venerable Louvre sees blood, bones and beetles cohabiting with the grand masters of the Dutch, Flemish…
In food-obsessed France, distinguishing between the tart and the bitter or the crunchy and the crackly, or even simply sorting good food from bad, became part of the school year…
Widows long ago racked up a name for themselves in France’s bubbly Champagne region, where the most celebrated of all, Veuve (Widow) Cliquot, struck gold over 100 years ago by…
Did Jim Morrison OD on a nightclub toilet or die of a drug-induced heart attack in a bathtub at home? Thirty-six years after the death in Paris of the <i>Doors</i> legend,…
It was France’s first national truffle fete and the crowds were acting a bit like the wild boar that like to root the luxury fungus out of the soil.
After virtual travel and virtual games, how about becoming a virtual art collector with a share in a multi-million-euro Vincent Van Gogh you can peruse at leisure on the Internet.
