West Africa

Burkina Faso’s coup leader Paul-Henri Damiba has promised to deal with the mounting insecurity after being inaugurated as the country’s...

France and its allies in an international force will withdraw their troops from Mali after almost a decade, President Emmanuel...

Burkina Faso military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is due to be sworn in as the country’s president, just over two...

Year-long celebrations have begun in Liberia to commemorate the time when freedmen from the US first arrived there two centuries...

President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce France will withdraw its forces from Mali, amid a breakdown in relations with the country’s...

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, canceled a planned visit to Liberia this week to focus instead on...

Denmark will partially suspend its development aid to Mali after the forced departure of its soldiers from the country, as...

Africa's efforts to build up capacity to manufacture vaccines against COVID-19 are not designed to meet this year's needs but...

Military Prosecutors in Burkina Faso on Tuesday requested a 30-year prison term for former President Blaise Compaoré, for the 1987...

Nigerian MPs have thrown their weight behind the establishment of a local vaccine development plant. On Tuesday, the lower house...