Tag: Africa

The Islamic State group has said its militants were behind the killing of six French aid workers, their local guide and ...

More than 200 prisoners have escaped from a jail in north-east Uganda, officials say, bringing the local town to a ...

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has urged the new leadership in Mali to use the transition period to ...

Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the military leadership in ...

Ivory Coast’s Constitutional Council on Monday ruled that President Alassane Ouattara is eligible to run for a third term in ...

The former president of Mali, Moussa Traoré, has died at home in the capital, Bamako. He was 83. Mr Traoré ...

A filmmaker has been arrested for allegedly recording a pornographic movie at the Osun Osogbo sacred grove in western Nigeria, ...

The Republic of Liberia has lost her full membership rights at the African Union, is now an observer at the ...

Mauritius' fisheries ministry has banned the sale and consumption of fish and seafood caught in a south-eastern lagoon after samples ...

At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing outside a mosque in the Somalian port city of ...