OUAGADOUGOU: Children in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou returned to school on Monday for the start of the new academic year, as residents sought...
OUAGADOUGOU: Children in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou returned to school on Monday for the start of the new academic year, as residents sought...
MOGADISHU: Officials and witnesses say at least 12 people are dead after extremist fighters targeted local government headquarters in the capital of Somalia’s...
Bosaso, Somalia: Somalia's government said late on Sunday that it had killed Abdullahi Nadir, one of the co-founders of militant group al Shabaab,...
OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso's self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore has accepted a conditional resignation offered by President Paul-Henri Damiba to avoid further violence...
OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso's new junta leadership called for an end to the unrest on Sunday, a day after angry protesters attacked the French...
OUAGADOUGOU: Gunfire rang out across Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday and fire broke out at the French embassy after self-declared leader Ibrahim Traore...
ABUJA: Nigerians celebrated the 62nd anniversary of their independence Saturday with the country's leader acknowledging the economic and security hardships citizens are facing...
OUAGADOUGOU: Shots rang out inBurkina Faso's capital on Saturday and heavily armed security forces drove through the centre in a convoy, a day...
Johannesburg: Jet fuel supplies at one of Africa's busiest airports are running low following further delays in deliveries, South Africa's state-controlled airports company...
More than a dozen soldiers seized control of Burkina Faso's state television late Friday, declaring that the country's coup leader-turned-president, Lt. Col. Paul...
ABUJA: Presidential candidates in Nigeria signed an accord Thursday committing to a peaceful campaign for the 2023 election. Nearly all of the 18...
KAMPALA: Five people have died from Ebola in Uganda and another 19 deaths were likely caused by the disease, the president said on...
DAKAR: A long-awaited trial of eleven men, including former military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara, accused of responsibility for a 2009 stadium massacre and...
Mogadishu: Somalia’s army, backed by thousands of militia members, have driven al-Shabaab militants out of central areas of the country in the largest...
KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of its latest Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern province of North Kivu, Health...
CAIRO: Sudanese medical officials warned on Monday that more than 1, 500 unidentified bodies piled up in several of the country’s morgues could...
LAGOS: Nigeria's national electricity grid collapsed on Monday leaving many parts of the country without power, electricity distribution companies said. The grid has...
NAIROBI, Kenya: A multi-story building collapsed outside Kenya's capital Monday, and rescuers are picking through the debris in search of several people reported...