Paris will open its first refugee camp in mid-October, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Tuesday, announcing a centre solely for men with an initial capacity of 400. The emergency centre, which will be housed in an old railway site in the north of Paris, aims to replace the makeshift camps that ...
Pressure mounted on Gabon’s President Ali Bongo on Tuesday over his disputed poll victory as his justice minister resigned over the results and former colonial ruler France suggested a recount. With Bongo claiming victory by a wafer-thin margin of some 6,000 votes, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls proposed recounting the ...
