The Gambia’s ultra-paranoid dictator Yahya Jammeh and international donors have been at loggerheads over human rights abuses in his tiny West African country since he suddenly ordered the execution of nine death row prisoners in August last year.
So when Jammeh announced on Wednesday night that he was pulling The Gambia out of the Commonwealth, only one month before the biennial summit of the 54-nation body in Sri Lanka, nobody should have been completely surprised. Continue reading…
An Eiffel Tower lollipop, a baguette bag with a shoulder strap and a tandem Vélib’ rental bike. These are just some of the innovative objects at an unusual exhibition, Lost in Paris, which aims to connect design with tourism. Continue reading…
French President Francois Hollande called off military strikes against Syria on 31 August following a phone call from the US President only hours before fighter jets were set to take off, a French weekly magazine has revealed. Continue reading…
If there is an enduring image of all the horrific wars in Africa, one in particular has the power to reach across the years. It is the sight of the maimed and mutilated children in Sierra Leone, their limbs hacked off by child soldiers high on drugs who were as young as their victims. Continue reading…
The French government has unveiled its 2014 budget which breaks an earlier promise to halt rising taxes for the French, weighed down by one of the highest tax burdens in the world. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 