BANJUL, Gambia: The hearing of a petition seeking to annul the results of Gambia’s recent presidential elections filed by the small nation’s strongman...
BANJUL, Gambia: The hearing of a petition seeking to annul the results of Gambia’s recent presidential elections filed by the small nation’s strongman...
JUBA, South Sudan: South Sudan hopes to agree on border demarcation, oil deal and power generation with its northern neighbor Sudan, key among...
Katiola, Ivory Coast: Gerard, a bright-eyed eight-year-old with closely-cropped hair, tucks into his meal, showing no signs of thinking about how very close...
BANJUL: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh vowed to stay in power when his mandate ends in January, defying calls from West African leaders to...
LAGOS, Nigeria: A video showing dozens of Nigerian soldiers complaining about lack of food and water at their camp has surfaced on social...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least eight schoolchildren were killed late Tuesday when a van rammed into a religious procession in Nigeria’s northeastern state of...
Lagos: Nigeria's Arik airline has resumed flights following a deal to end a one-day strike that paralysed its operation, the company said on...
Kinshasa: The United Nations voiced alarm yesterday over a wave of arrests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where tensions were running high...
Kinshasa: Security forces fired teargas and arrested youths gathered in the streets of Kinshasa yesterday to demand that Democratic Republic of Congo President...
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he feared genocide was about to start in South Sudan unless immediate action is taken,...
Kenya's government has terminated operations of a US-funded project to educate voters, just months before this East African country holds its next presidential...
JOHANNESBURG: Police in South Africa’s capital Pretoria have fired rubber bullets to disperse about 400 Congolese protesters who had gathered outside their embassy...
NAIROBI: Next year’s general elections are in jeopardy after the High Court on Monday suspended a $24.5 million tender for paper ballots. Opposition...
KINSHASA: Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi called on the Congolese people to peacefully resist President Joseph Kabila after the latter stayed in power on...
Kinshasa: Protesters gathered in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital and at least one other city, defying a ban on demonstrations against the president's...
Kano: At least six people were killed in an eruption of communal violence at the weekend between herders and farmers in central Nigeria,...
Bamako: Mali's foreign minister yesterday denied an agreement had been reached with the European Union to take back migrants failing to get asylum....
MOGADISHU, Somalia: African Union soldiers killed 11 civilians in two separate incidents over the weekend, Somalia residents told The Associated Press on Monday....
