Football fever has slowly built over the last four weeks as the country took its young national team to heart
France gave the world the word entrepreneur – and now it is giving the world entrepreneurs
A bombing aimed at French soldiers on patrol in Mauritania’s troubled north killed four civilians and injured over 20 people, including four soldiers
France’s Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday jumped to the aid of his core European partner, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Citizenship is increasingly becoming something that must be ‘earned’, but this undermines basic rights
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From London to Berlin, Europe’s museums are packed with hundreds of thousands of colonial-era items
Mamoudou Gassama was sleeping on a floor before becoming a folk hero for saving a child, his exploits have triggered a wave of pride tinged with envy
​A migrant who scaled a four-story Paris apartment bloc with his bare hands to save a child was honoured by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday
African high-tech startups are minuscule compared with their US and European peers but they are finally gaining momentum and attention
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EU president Donald Tusk urged leaders meeting in Bulgaria to form a "united European front" against Trump’s withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal
The president pulled the United States out of a landmark deal curbing Iran’s nuclear program and reimposing crippling sanctions
​The country’s Parliament will vote on a tough a immigration Bill that has sparked rumblings of revolt within President Emmanuel Macron’s party
The US and its allies have called for the enforcement of a ceasefire and demanded Syria engage in UN-led peace talks
A new David Goldblatt exhibition in Paris raises questions about the photographer in relation to documentary practice in South Africa
‘You wore a purple tie for Sona. Let’s paint South Africa purple!’
A former investment banker, Macron has vowed to shake the French economy out of its torpor.
Human Rights Watch tracks unchecked abuse in unstable states like Syria and Myanmar, authoritarian trends in powers like Turkey and China.
The government of Macron’s predecessor Francois Hollande dismantled the Jungle — a squalid camp that at its height was home to some 10 000 people
"It confirms that France is one of the countries receiving the most asylum claims in Europe."
People celebrated in Ghana when opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo became president as he promised to improve education and stamp out corruption.
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Bound for the EU-Africa summit, President Macron told Burkina Faso students that migrant trafficking was a "crime against humanity."
​More than a decade in the making, the Louvre Abu Dhabi has finally opened its doors
The Paris treaty calls for capping global warming at "well under" two degrees celsius, and 1.5 °C if possible.
France has been under a state of emergency for nearly two years and the president now wants to make certain controversial elements permanent law
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Trump takes the podium at the General Assembly, presenting his message to the world as he pushes his nationalist "America First" agenda.
The French are "falling out of love" with Macron, the right-leaning daily Le Figaro headlined Sunday.
The new French president’s committment to social justice has come in for questioning.
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The row erupted last week when the chief of staff told a parliamentary committee he would not allow the armed forces to be "screwed"
France’s youngest president in the six decade-long Fifth Republic has transformed the country’s political landscape in a matter of weeks
Sibeth Ndiaye has been recognised as a key component of Macron’s success, and is even considered a role model to young women
Emmanuel Macron looks sincere about a new relationship with Africa, but his foreign policy still lacks concrete and precise propositions.
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Now, as in the past, the liberal Enlightenment is no guarantee for liberty, equality and fraternity