Power has its perks in Niger and the rules are being rewritten by those in charge. On Thursday, a national commission, representing participants to talks on the country’s transition to democratic rule ...

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

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Malian director Souleymane Cissé, one of the fathers of African cinema, died on Wednesday in a Bamako clinic aged 84, his ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

A decade after ISIS militants executed a group of Christians in Libya, a short animated film highlights their courage.

France said on Thursday it would keep 80 military personnel in Ivory Coast largely for training purposes, as it handed over control of a military base in the commercial capital amid a scaling back of ...

The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee floated the bill to cut against Beijing’s “One ...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) lost three of its founding members on 29 January 2025. Burkina Faso, ...

Popular Tanzanian  socialite Hamisa Mobetto and her newly-wedded husband, football star Aziz Ki are not resting anytime soon with new claims emerging that Aziz married Hamisa on behalf of his Yanga F.