June 14

• Africa: African Press Review 14 June 2013

  We focus on South Africa where news of Nelson Mandela's improving health is making headlines in most of the rainbow nation's papers. Read more »

• Mali: Two French Soldiers Wounded As Mali Violence Continues, Le Drian

  French troops continue to clash with armed Islamists in Mali with two French soldiers wounded this week, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told RFI Friday. The French... Read more »

June 13

• South Africa: Law Students Worry About Mandela, Their Role Model

  Students at the law faculty of Witwatersrand University are on tenterhooks as anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela spends his sixth night in hospital on Wednesday, receiving... Read more »

June 12

• South Africa: Mandela's Fourth Day in Hospital - We Are All Feeling It, Says Zuma

  Doctors treating anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela are doing "a very good job", South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. Read more »

• South Africa: Zuma Upbeat As Mandela Spends Fifth Night in Hospital

  Doctors treating anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela are doing "a very good job", South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. Read more »

• Africa: African Press Review 12 June 2013

  Johannesburg's stock exchange is jumpy, while Nairobi's is happy. "Experts" oppose job security for temporary workers. Kenyan MPs lose their battle for big salaries but get a new... Read more »

June 11

• Africa: African Press Review 11 June 2013

  Piglets in South Africa, the International Criminal Court's Fatou Bensouda and a spat between Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete - all in today's African press .... Read more »

• South Africa: South African Youngsters Address France's Children's Parliament

  In France, South Africa Season is underway. It's a six month-long programme of artistic, gastronomic, scientific and sporting events, among others. More than 800 South Africans... Read more »

June 10

• Africa: African Press Review 10 June 2013

  Mandela's health pushes other stories out of the South African headlines. Bosses hope that labour-brokers won't be banned. Sadc hopes to meet Mugabe. The US is snooping on Kenyans.... Read more »

• Algeria: Michelin to Shed 700 Jobs in France, Sell Algeria Operation

  Tyre-maker Michelin is to shed 700 jobs at one of its French factories and sell its Algerian operation. The company, which says it will invest 800 million euros in France, is... Read more »

June 09

• Mozambique: Childo Tomas and the Family Affair

  Mozambican bass player and vocalist Childo Tomas talks to RFI about the joys of making his first solo album - The roots of Mozambique - after nearly two decades of playing in other... Read more »

June 08

• South Africa: Mandela in 'Serious but Stable' Condition After Being Admitted to Hospital

  South Africa's beloved hero and former president Nelson Mandela is back in hospital today, after suffering another lung infection. Read more »

June 07

• Kenya: African Press Review 7 June 2013 [press release]

  Friday's big story comes from Kenya where the sharing of 29 million euros in compensation granted by the British government for atrocities committed by colonial forces during... Read more »

June 06

• Kenya: African Press Review 6 June 2013

  Kenya's MPs hitting out at journalists and plans to loosen strike restrictions in South Africa are both stories in today's African papers ... Read more »

June 05

• Tunisia: French, German Women Face Court for Topless Protest

  Two French women and a German went on trial in Tunisia on Wednesday for holding a topless anti-Islamist protest in the capital, Tunis. Read more »

• Burundi: African Press Review 5 June 2013

  Burundi clams down on the media. Uganda's closed papers reopen. Is CAR recruiting LRA fighters to its army? Has Kagame purged his cabinet? And Egypt's Muslim Brothers slam Turkey's... Read more »

June 04

• Somalia: Al-Shebab Displays Kenyan Prisoners in Southern Town

  Al-Shebab fighters in Somalia on Sunday publicly displayed two soldiers they claim are Kenyans, captured during skirmishes that left five people dead last month after a... Read more »

• Kenya: African Press Review 4 June 2013

  Will William Ruto be tried in Kenya? Will Laurent Gbagbo be tried anywhere? What should the East African Community do next? And a South African mining trade unionist is shot dead. Read more »

June 03

• Mali: France Condemns Anti-Black Violence in Kidal

  France has condemned "violence and extra-judicial arrests" committed against black citizens in Kidal in northestern Mali, calling on all parties there to exercise restraint. Read more »

• Kenya: African Press Review 3 June 2013

  MPs' salaries are still making front page news in Kenya. Read more »

June 02

• Libya: France Offers Help to Secure Libya's Border

  France has offered to work with Libya to seal its boders to Islamist fighters fleeing Mali, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday. Read more »

June 01

• Cote d'Ivoire: France Warns Nationals in Côte d'Ivoire of Terror Threat

  France has warned its citizens in Côte d'Ivoire to beware of attacks by armed Islamists. The foreign affairs ministry believes that the war in Mali may spill over into... Read more »

May 31

• Nigeria: African Press Review 31 May 2013 [press release]

  The African press looks at the discovery in Nigeria of an arms cache allegedly linked to the Lebanese Islamist armed group, Hezbollah. Read more »

• Uganda: Uganda's Monitor and Red Pepper Reopen After 10-Day Closure

  The Ugandan government has allowed papers and radio stations shut by police to reopen. Monitor Publications is back in business 10 days after it was besieged and closed by the... Read more »

• Africa: Racisme - La Fifa durcit les sanctions

  En congrès ce 31 mai à l’Île Maurice, la Fifa a adopté une résolution visant à durcir les sanctions contre tout actes et... Read more »