François Hollande's reign as president was marked by a secret love affair, deadly terror attacks, and an economic policy U-turn that could still rip his own Socialist Party apart - so much for the...
The world's largest festival of French film hits Hollywood this month with an innovative line-up embracing the latest technology to showcase the best of the country's filmmaking talent. COLCOA is...
A row has erupted over Ecuador's presidential elections after early results indicate a victory for the incumbent party's candidate. With more than 98% of the votes counted, Lenin Moreno of the...
A row has erupted over Ecuador’s presidential elections after early results projected victory for the incumbent party’s candidate. Results show former vice president Lenin Moreno of the Socialist...
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has rejected accusations that moves to consolidate his power in the crisis-hit country violated the constitution. Maduro's opponents accused him of staging a coup...
A month before the first round of France's presidential election, 43 percent of voters are hesitant about who to vote for, a poll said on Friday, underlining the uncertainty surrounding the volatile...
French Defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is the latest member of the current Socialist government to throw his support behind centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. It’s yet another...
Venezuela this week arrested four bakers making illegal brownies and other pastries as President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government threatens to take over bakeries in Caracas as part of a new...
Dutch people rejected "the wrong kind of populism", Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said, as he celebrated victory in Wednesday's election. "The Netherlands said 'Whoa!'" he declared after his...
The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has hinted that Ghana’s socialist party, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), which was founded by Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah, is on the...
Khalifa Sall was arrested along with five members of his staff The mayor of Senegal's capital, Dakar, has been placed in custody for allegedly embezzling public money. An investigating $2.9m (£2.3m)...
Ghana’s socialist party, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), on whose ticket Dr Kwame Nkrumah became the country’s first president, is on the path of extinction as a political party,...
The embattled mayor of Senegal's capital Dakar was on Tuesday charged with embezzlement of public funds and placed in custody, one of his lawyers told AFP. Khalifa Sall, who has run the city since...
The embattled mayor of Senegal's capital Dakar will face questioning Monday in connection with public funds worth $2.85 million (2.7 million euros) allegedly embezzled by his office, he said while...
A cabinet minister who claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects should be investigated for human rights abuses, Amnesty International has said. Uma Bharti, in charge of water...
Amnesty International called on Tuesday for an Indian cabinet minister to be investigated for human rights abuses after she claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects. Water resources...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has launched her presidential election manifesto with a twin attack on globalisation and radical Islam. The candidate of the National Front (FN) told supporters...
Spain's former Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez launched a bid to regain leadership of the party on Saturday, four months after he was toppled for refusing to end a political stalemate that gripped the...
France is choosing its left-wing presidential candidate this weekend, in what is seen as a crucial test for the direction - even the survival - of the governing Socialist Party. Six men and one woman...
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. When the Deputy General-Secretary of the soon-to-be the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says that his party is going to hold the feet of the...
