The death toll from the sinking of a boat in the Congo river last week has risen to 47, with many people still missing, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s transport minister said Monday. The initial report by authorities from the northwest Equateur province on Sunday said 28 bodies...
On Friday evening, Morocco was hit by a magnitude 7 earthquake in the province of Al-Haouz, killing more than 2,000 people. While the seismic risk in this region was known, an earthquake of this magnitude was “unforeseeable”. FRANCE 24 talks with seismologist Florent Brenguier. The most...
In the wake of the devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people in Morocco late on Friday, French cities and civic associations have mobilised to bring emergency aid to those hit hardest by the quake. In a stark white room made available to the town hall of Châtillon, a...
The counterterrorism expert and author of “Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community” explains how religious extremism manifested in Sri Lanka’s deadliest terror attack. On April 21, 2019 – Easter Sunday – a coordinated series of bombings ripped through...
The International Criminal Court said Thursday it had released Maxime Mokom, a former militia leader in the Central African Republic (CAR), shelving its war crimes case against him after the prosecutor dropped all charges. Prosecutor Karim Khan said his office had concluded there were...
