Security

Zambia's government said on Monday that it opposed a U.S. attempt ‌to tie health funding to access to critical minerals,...

At least 130 Nigerian citizens in South Africa have asked their ​government to fly them home after ‌a protests there...

Malian authorities are investigating soldiers suspected of involvement in last week's coordinated ‌attacks on army bases across the country by militants linked...

The United States has imposed sweeping sanctions on former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, accusing him of providing...

The Kremlin said on ​Thursday that Russian forces would stay in Mali to help the military-led government battle insurgents as...

Malian forces are back in control of ​a town on the Niger border that Islamic State-linked insurgents entered this week,...

Amnesty International called on Nigeria to ​investigate reports that at least 150 people, ‌most of them children, had died in...

The ruling junta in Burkina Faso has tightened security in the capital Ouagadougou in the wake of coordinated attacks in its...

Madagascar has detained a former French serviceman accused of ​taking part in a plot to destabilise the Indian Ocean Island,...

Nigerian troops killed at least 18 Islamist terrorists and ​destroyed several insurgent enclaves in coordinated ‌operations across Borno state, the...