By Lisa Bryant Paris 04 February 2008 Embattled French bank Societe Generale faces new worries with a trial opening Monday in Paris over a vast money laundering scandal that took place several years ago. The trial implicates staff and the bank itself...
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 26 December 2007 A court in Chad Wednesday convicted six French aid workers belonging to the Zoe's Ark group of trying to kidnap African children, and sentenced them to eight years of hard labor. A Chadian and Sudanese were sen...
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 21 December 2007 Six French aid workers from the group Zoe's Ark have gone on trial in Chad. The six are accused of the attempted kidnapping of 103 children who were discovered by authorities as they were being flown to Europe...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 December 2007 Music is said to be the universal language, and jazz, in particular, travels well from one culture to the next. A recent conference in Los Angeles looked at the ties forged by jazz between France and th...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 06 December 2007 French President Nicolas Sarkozy again marked his hands-on diplomatic style by personally requesting the head of Colombia's FARC guerrillas release 45 hostages the group has been holding for years. For VOA, Lisa...
By Al Pessin Washington 04 December 2007 The commander of NATO forces says U.S. and French units have been moved to a key outpost in Kosovo to help prevent violence in what he calls the most volatile region the alliance is dealing with. But the offic...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 28 November 2007 French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to crack down Wednesday on rioters after two nights violence outside Paris. The rioting is reminiscent of the violence that swept the country in 2005, when youths staged vio...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 23 November 2007 After nine days of crippling national transportation strikes France appeared to be returning to normal Friday amid negotiations between labor unions and government officials. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports that...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 14 November 2007 Students and other demonstrators have rallied in the streets of Chad's capital, N'Djamena, protesting against French efforts to repatriate aid workers charged in the recent Zoe's Ark adoption controversy. Loca...