South Africa's government has deployed the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to Cape Town's violence-plagued townships, launching a security intervention aimed at reasserting state authority over neighbourhoods that have long operated beyond the reach of regular policing. The deployment, confirmed by France 24 on April 9, 2026, comes after months of escalating gang violence, […]

Fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo armed forces (FARDC) and M23 rebels has pushed eastern DRC to what aid workers and UN officials describe as a humanitarian breaking point. Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and a city of nearly 800,000 people, has found itself at the epicenter of a crisis that has

Russian state-linked influence networks have been systematically spreading anti-Ukrainian propaganda across Ivory Coast and francophone West Africa, exploiting colonial linguistic ties, economic grievances, and popular distrust of Western institutions to win hearts and minds on behalf of Moscow. A detailed investigation published by France 24 in April 2026 revealed the scale and sophistication of these

Djibouti is poised to hold a presidential election on April 11, 2026, an event already drawing sharp criticism from international observers and opposition leaders who denounce it as a facade for the extension of President Ismail Omar Guelleh's near-decades-long rule. Guelleh, who has governed the tiny but strategically vital Red Sea nation since 1999, is