Politics

Somalia's national army ​took control of the biggest city in South West state ‌on Monday, prompting the regional leader to...

Ghana’s former president Nana Akufo-Addo will head the ECOWAS mission to oversee Benin’s presidential election, the Economic Community of West...

A former Gambian minister appeared in a Swiss court ‌on Monday to appeal against a conviction for crimes against humanity...

Congo-Brazzaville's 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso secured 95 percent of the vote in an election that extended his rule, the...

Lansana Kouyaté, a former Guinean prime minister, has been tasked with re-establishing dialogue with Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso after...

One of the principal figures convicted in an infamous 2009 stadium massacre in Guinea died in custody Wednesday in the...

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, ​speaking in New York on Tuesday, criticized the U.S. administration for what he described as...

Taiwan has announced it will for the first time skip a major World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting after a...

Political tensions are rising in Zimbabwe. Opposition leader Tendai Biti has been granted bail after spending the weekend in detention....

Chad has begun the emergency relocation of refugees from its border with Sudan as the army prepares to ​deploy to...