Betsinefe, Madagascar: The dusty figure is lowered slowly into the ground like a bucket into a well, armed with just a crowbar, a...
Betsinefe, Madagascar: The dusty figure is lowered slowly into the ground like a bucket into a well, armed with just a crowbar, a...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said he remained committed to ensuring that the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants are...
LAGOS, Nigeria: The parents of the nearly 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, who have been held captive by Boko Haram since April 2014, remain hopeful...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least five people, including three soldiers were killed and 13 others wounded when twin bomb blasts targeted a busy restaurant...
ACCRA, Ghana: The leader of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akuffo Addo, took the oath of office as Ghana’s new president Saturday, marking...
MARWENDO, Zimbabwe: Rhoda Mhlanga looked tired. Even so, Mhlanga, who lives in a remote village in eastern Zimbabwe, managed to smile as she...
YAMOUSSOUKRO: Heavy gunfire was heard overnight and early on Saturday near military camps in two cities in Ivory Coast, where disgruntled soldiers launched...
DAKAR: Gambia’s embattled President Yahya Jammeh has fired the country’s Ambassador to Senegal after the Ambassador urged him to accept defeat and hand...
BANJUL, Gambia: Mamma Kandeh, a defeated Gambian opposition leader who went to polls with President elect Adama Barrow and President Yahya Jammeh has...
Accra: Nana Akufo-Addo is to be sworn in as Ghana's new president on Saturday after beating incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama in elections...
LAGOS: A Nigerian militant group, which has claimed attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta, said in a statement on Friday that...
Today, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be inaugurated as Ghana’s new president after having won a majority of votes in the December elections....
Hong Kong: China on Friday hiked the yuan against the dollar in its biggest one-day increase since 2005, after the greenback fell against...
Bouake: Soldiers demanding more pay and housing rose up in several cities around Ivory Coast yesterday, raiding arms depots and taking control of...
Chibok: The parents of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram in October last year after two and a half years in...
N'Djamena: Chad, a key ally of the West in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa, said it has closed its long...
DAR ES SALAAM: More than 800 girls were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in northern Tanzania last month, a local government official...
LONDON: Women in the Lake Chad basin have been forced to sell sex to survive due to a conflict that has driven millions...
