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Focus: Bananas - Angola's 'green gold'

Bananas are turning into the ‘green gold’ of Angola. The country is the second biggest oil producer Africa, but revenues have gone down by at least

Target

African cities facing climate change

The rainy season was supposed to have started in Johannesburg at the same time as the rest of South Africa but it hasn’t rained for months now. This

World

The World Bank pushes for a greener economy

With the opening of COP21 in Paris, climate change is at the heart of international debates. Euronews’ Gregoire Lory took the occasion to speak to

France

France to invest billions in African renewable energy projects

The COP21 climate summit is now fully underway: the delegations from 195 countries represented here are meeting face to face, they’re taking

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France

Africa at the forefront of climate change gets its day in Paris

Today the Cop21 climate change conference in Paris presents Africa day. The continent bears the brunt of climate change without contributing to its

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso elects first new president in decades

Roch Marc Kabore has been proclaimed the winner of Burkina Faso’s presidential election. After nearly three decades of autocratic rule followed by a

World News

Pope makes final plea to heal Muslim-Christian rifts before leaving Africa

A packed sports stadium was the last venue for Pope Francis in the Central African Republic on Monday, a day on which he implored Christians and

Uganda

Pope Francis arrives in Uganda

Pope Francis has arrived in Uganda on the second leg of his three-nation African tour. Tens of thousands of people lined his route into the Ugandan

Culture news

Visa For Music rocks Rabat

The Moroccan city of Rabat has been echoing to the cadences of music from Africa and the Middle East. It was playing host to the second edition of

World News

World Bank looks for backers for $16B plan for Africa to adapt to climate change

The World Bank has announced it is calling for some 15 billion euros to pay for a “plan”

World

Education projects in Egypt and Uganda win 2015 Wise Awards

Egypt-based Nafham and the Educate! project in Uganda have been named WISE Awards winners at this year's World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha. This edition of Learning World looks into what t

Kenya

Kenya: Pope Francis visits slum, calls for more to be done about poverty

On his final day in Kenya, Pope Francis calls on the government to do more to lift people out of poverty.

Kenya

Pope disgusted by 'barbarous attacks' in God's name

Pope Francis celebrated mass with tens of thousands at the university of Nairobi. Pope Francis, in Kenya, denounces "barbarous attacks" carried out

World News

Pope calls for religious reconciliation at the start of African tour

Pope Francis was given a warm welcome when he arrived in Kenya at the start if a three nation trip, his first ever to Africa. His tour will also

Mali

Jihadist strike on Mali luxury hotel defies French troop presence

In March this year, the Malian capital Bamako, so far spared from any terrorist attack, saw five people killed — including one Belgian and one French

Focus

Turkey's rising role in Africa

Under the Ottoman Empire Turkey ruled North Africa for hundreds of years, but after the empire fell in the 1920s, the country lost interest in the

Focus

Africa : cities and development, for today and the future

Europe News

Malta migrant summit: EU leaders unveil Africa fund and debate Turkey deal

Desperately seeking solutions to Europe’s migrant crisis, EU leaders have unveiled an emergency trust fund for Africa. It is part of a bid to combat

Europe News

Africa trust fund will bring migration and development policies 'closer together'

The EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development has told euronews that an emergency trust fund for Africa is aimed at bringing

Malta

EU offers 1.8-billion-euro Emergency Trust Fund to Africa

On the final day of the Valletta Summit on Migration, the European Union offers 1.8 billion euros in aid to Africa.