On Monday the Pope will be in Metz, in northeast France, where he will pay tribute to Robert Schuman (1886-1963), a founding father of the European Union and a fervent Catholic who is today a candidate for beatification. The Pope will also meet a group of migrants in Paris, and in Lourdes some victims of…
Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark 1956 Congress of Black Writers and Artists, held at the Sorbonne university in Paris and aimed at strengthening the Pan-African movement and giving voices to black writers and intellectuals from across Africa, Europe and the United States. The congress took place from 19 to 22 September 1956…
stc group, a leading digital enabler, concluded its third consecutive year as a Founding and Elite Partner of the Esports World Cup (EWC), supporting the tournament as it staged its first edition outside Saudi Arabia in Paris.
Models stepped on to a Paris runway last week wearing sculptural gowns in African textiles by Imane Ayissi – the first and still the only designer from sub-Saharan Africa to take part in Paris’s haute couture shows. Ayissi’s Autumn/Winter 2026-2027 collection “fused sculptural elegance, artisanal mastery and cultural storytelling into a personal vision of contemporary…
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,…
Some young attendees say the event demonstrated a more inclusive French culture taking shape.
The Chairperson of the AU Commission , H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf met with H.E. Khaled El-Enany, Director-General of @UNESCO, at its Headquarters in Paris yesterday. Discussions centred on the complementary mandates of the African Union and UNESCO, with a focus on advancing collaboration in the areas of culture, education, as well as knowledge management. The…
Kenya’s National Assembly has ratified a bilateral defence agreement with France, underlining Paris’s strategic shift away from its traditional West African sphere of influence towards anglophone Africa. Signed in October 2025, the accord establishes a five-year framework – renewable once automatically. The agreement will “enhance Kenya’s defence capacity through access to French training, technology, and…
Football fans from across Africa have gathered in Paris to back their teams, whether it’s in a restaurant, a friend’s flat or even out on the streets – even if they say watching it back home is a livelier affair. Yahia, 17, Algeria fan “The Africa Cup of Nations in Barbès is a celebration of…
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire – Many young Africans who have studied in Europe are turning the dream of returning home to build a career or start a business into a reality. RFI spoke to Pierre Djemis, who organises forums in Abidjan and Paris to connect these repatriates with new opportunities, and with each other. They are…
