Preserved human skulls exhibited at the Genocide memorial in Nyamata, inside a Catholic church where thousands were slaughtered during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. France has declassified documents relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. A decision to declassify documents concerning Rwanda and the genocide, which claimed at least 800,000 lives, was made on Tuesday, said a source in President Francois... 

France’s ruling Socialist Party has officially appointed Harlem Désir as its new leader, a move that potentially puts the former anti-racism activist on track to becoming the country’s first black president. Members of France’s ruling Socialist Party overwhelmingly picked Harlem Désir as party chief during the group’s congress in the southwest city of Toulouse on Thursday. The vote made...