Security

Planned power cuts in parts of South Africa have been suspended amid heavy flooding. Intense downpours caused extensive damage in...

Fighting has continued to be reported in Ethiopia’s restive Amhara region between government troops and local militias with the historic...

An unspecified number of female students have been abducted by gunmen from a Nigerian university in north-west Zamfara state. The...

With placards reading Ghana deserves better, we are tired of being voting machines or people equals power, protestors rallied in...

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday called for a speedy withdrawal of a key UN peacekeeping...

A moment of silence has been observed at Kenya's Westgate Mall in the capital, Nairobi, on the 10th anniversary of...

Burkina Faso’s Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT) has unanimously voted to send troops to neighbouring Niger, where the military seized power...

A large crowd hails soldiers as a convoy passes through Gaya on September 13, Niger's closest city to Benin, on...

Fresh fighting broke out between Mali's army and northern Tuareg rebels on Sunday, with the rebels claiming to have taken...

Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, three West African Sahel nations ruled by military juntas, signed a security pact on Saturday...