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When life gives you olives, make olive oil. That's exactly what a group of neighbours on the outskirts of Paris have done – turning fruit from their garden trees that was dropping to waste into the region's very first olive oil.

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Senegal’s legislative elections. There’s “On This Day”, “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan”– all that, and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click the “Play” button above and…

A decade after jihadists stormed its Paris newsroom killing eight staff members, satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo is charting an ambitious course for its next 10 years. Chief editor Gerald Biard tells RFI the paper remains resolute in its mission to mock all religions.

The attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on 7 January 2015 triggered a wave of violence against Muslims across France and called into question the country's approach to freedom of expression.

Ernest Cole's haunting photographs of apartheid shocked the world and yet his own life ended in obscurity. Now, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck has brought Cole's story to the screen in Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Speaking to RFI, Peck reflects on Cole's groundbreaking work and the exile that tore him…

In 2024, 18 elections took place on the African continent, from Senegal to South Africa, Algeria to Ghana, with the results an equal mix of democratic success stories and challenges still to overcome.

As the DRC brings an unprecedented case against Apple, and the company offers assurances that it will no longer use conflict minerals from central Africa, experts are questioning whether real change is on the horizon in illegal mining.

As France prepares to hand over its military base in Port-Bouët to the Ivorian army by the end of January, local shopkeepers are worried about how the departure of French soldiers will hurt their livelihoods.

Tibetans in France have been sounding the alarm over the Guimet Museum of Asian Arts' relabelling of its art and artefacts from Tibet, saying it has caved to pressure from China to "erase" Tibetan culture.