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An interesting piece of news broke this past Monday when the Malian junta announced a move to ban all NGOs funded or supported by France. The interim Prime Minister of Mali, Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga justified this ban by pointing to France's recent suspension of development assistance to Mali. Now the French halted this support because of the junta's utilization of the...

A French tax inspector was stabbed to death on Monday when he was trying to audit an antiques store in the village of Bullecourt. According to Chief Prosecutor Sylvain Barbier Sainte Mairie, two inspectors went to the business on Monday as part of an ongoing tax investigation. At some point during their visit, the owner, who remains unnamed, threatened the...

Paris: On Thursday, the lower house of France's parliament was adjourned after a far-right MP yelled, "Go back to Africa!" in response to a question about immigration from a Black lawmaker on the far left. The remark caused a major uproar. It was immediately deemed an unacceptable racist term by the left-wing alliance and the centrist administration. The French...

French Presidential election polls have conclusively projected French President Emmanuel Macron as winning against his opponent Marine Le Pen, turnout on Sunday was 2 percentage points lower than the 2017 election, according to the Interior Ministry, with an abstention rate of 28%, the highest since 1969 said Reuters. Macron's Centrist party, La République En Marche, looks set to gain...

France has announced that senior Al-Qaeda Emir Yahia Djouadi was killed during an overnight operation last month north of Timbuktu, Mali, that was carried out by ground forces backed by a Tiger attack helicopter and two drones. Djouadi has a prominent figure in Algerian Jihad back in the 1990s, where he became a key advisor and financier to Al-Qaeda...