French national abducted in Algeria

Two people, including a 67-year-old French woman working for a Catholic charity, are kidnapped by militiamen in the Central African Republic.

An Algerian jihadist group linked to IS releases a video appearing to show the beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was seized on Sunday.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 77, has been hospitalised in France, according to French officials.

Algeria's veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika returns home after being treated for an undisclosed condition at a hospital in Grenoble, France.

The body of French mountain guide Herve Gourdel is found in Algeria four months after he was killed by Algerian jihadists.

When far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen made it to the second round of the 2002 presidential election, shocked voters and mainstream parties united to keep him out of power.

On the occasion of French Cooperation Day, Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Hon. Dr. Seif Rashid, today joined the French Ambassador, His Excellency Marcel Escure and visiting dignitaries from the Agence Française de Développement (French Agency for Development – AFD) at the Aga Khan Hospital to mark the expansion of the Aga Khan Hospital.

AFD is providing a concessional loan of US$ 53.5 million (Tshs 90 billion) for the expansion.  The Aga Khan Development Network is contributing...

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I greet you on behalf of the Tanzania Professionals Network, a network that was started as a Non-Governmental Organization which brings together Tanzanian Professionals and corporate from various industries within and outside the country to address cross-cutting issues. The top agenda being mobilizing our resources using the Power of Brain to empower economically Professionals and Tanzanians at large by using opportunities which has already been identified.TPN has decided to organize the...