By Dominic Wabwireh with AP French President Emmanuel Macron has reaffirmed that Africa should lead the response to its own political and security crises, speaking in Addis Ababa after a trilateral meeting with African Union Commission chair Mahmoud Ali Youssouf and UN Secretary‑General António Guterres. During his first visit to the African Union headquarters, Macron said France fully supports mediation efforts coordinated by the AU, calling it the “legitimate body” to address the continent’s challenges. “We believe that African problems must first and foremost be resolved and coordinated by Africa,” Macron said, adding that France has consistently backed African‑led diplomacy…
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By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Rwanda’s former first lady Agathe Habyarimana will appeal last week’s court ruling that overturned a 2025 decision to dismiss an investigation into her role in the 1994 genocide. The killing spree was triggered by the assassination of her husband, former Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana. Over 100 days, more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were brutally murdered. Now 83, Agathe Habyarimana has been under investigation for complicity in the genocide since 2008. She has never been formally charged but has the status of an ‘assisted witness,’ a French legal category between a witness and a defendant. Prosecutors…
A conference on financing the African Union’s peace efforts will be held in Paris by the end of this year, French President Emmanuel Macron said while on a visit to Ethiopia. Macron has been in Africa on a five-day visit this week, including for a two-day economic summit in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. On Wednesday, he held informal talks with AU chairman Mahamoud Ali Youssouf and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “An international conference to raise additional funds and mobilise new public and private partners” for the African Union Peace Fund will be organised “in the last quarter of this year…
By Africanews with AFP Georgetown, one of present-day Washington’s most expensive neighborhoods, used to be a hub of Black life in the US capital. Little remains of this history since gentrification began in the 1930s, but remnants of its African American roots can be found in cemeteries that have suffered from decades of disrepair. The Black Georgetown Foundation is working to preserve the memories of the estimated eight-to-ten thousand people buried in two cemeteries: of Mount Zion Church, one of the oldest Black churches in the city, and the Female Union Band Society, founded in 1802 and 1842, respectively. “We…
By Rédaction Africanews Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday that M23 rebels and Rwandan forces carried out a brutal month-long occupation of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, marked by summary executions, rape and enforced disappearances. In a report released Thursday, the rights group says the city was occupied from December 10, 2025, to January 17, 2026. HRW said it documented more than 50 summary executions, at least eight rapes and 12 enforced disappearances, along with gunfire targeting civilians as they tried to flee. The report is based on more than 120 interviews carried out in March and…
By Rédaction Africanews The body of the second of two US soldiers reported missing during an international training exercise in Morocco has been recovered, the US Army said Wednesday. The pair disappeared near a cliff on the Atlantic coast while taking part in the African Lion 2026 military exercises. The remains of the two servicemembers — including 19-year-old specialist Mariyah Collington whose body was found in a coastal cave on Tuesday — were transferred to a Moroccan military hospital and then loaded onto a US Air Force C-130 plane for repatriation. The two bodies “are en route to the United…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP After much pomp and ceremony, bilateral talks in Beijing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his United States counterpart Donald Trump got underway on Thursday afternoon. Xi had greeted Trump with a red carpet welcome at the Great Hall of the People – China’s national legislature – with military band fanfare and a gun salute. In his opening remarks, Xi said stability in US-China relations was necessary for global order and that he believed their common interests outweighed their differences. Confrontation harms both countries, he said, adding that they should be partners not rivals. Trump…
By Rédaction Africanews The United States has announced it will waive a proposed $15,000 (£11,000) visa deposit for football fans from 50 countries travelling to the 2026 World Cup, provided they hold valid match tickets. Five African nations affected by the policy, Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Tunisia, have qualified for the tournament, which will be co-hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico from 11 June. “We are waiving visa bonds for qualified fans who bought World Cup tickets,” Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar told the BBC. The visa bond requirement was introduced last…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP Foreign ministers from the BRICS group of emerging economies began a two-day meeting in the Indian capital, New Delhi, on Thursday. The gathering comes as the expanding bloc faces divisions over the war in Iran, rising energy prices, and growing global uncertainty. It brings together diplomats from founding members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, along with newer member countries. They are expected to discuss economic cooperation and coordinate their positions on key global issues. In his opening remarks, Indian foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, said peace and security issues remain central to global order.…
The Confederation of African Football is addressing the “deficiencies” which contributed to the chaotic finale of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, according to the organisation’s president Patrice Motsepe. Senegal were crowned winners on the night, following a 1-0 victory after extra time, but were stripped of the title by a Confederation of African Football (Caf) appeal board in March, with the trophy instead handed to the hosts. The sanction was applied because the West Africans walked off the pitch in protest after Morocco were awarded a penalty following a VAR review in second-half injury time, when the game was goalless.…