FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Authorities have released a prominent opposition politician in Sierra Leone who was accused of making statements
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A suspected jihadist opened fire on a crowd at an aid distribution point in a north Malian village, killing three civilians, a
LOME, Togo (AP) — Activists in Togo charged Monday that a detained leader died in custody after authorities refused a request to bring him to a
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Security forces in Ivory Coast used teargas to disperse hundreds of students demonstrating Monday against overcrowded c
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leonean police official says that a prominent opposition politician has been arrested for making statements
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A radical jihadist group in northern Mali that ruled the town of Gao for nearly a year says it was behind the latest suicide
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — The Gambian government says that it has released a Muslim cleric who had been in detention for five months.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Five suicide bombers carried out two simultaneous attacks on soldiers in Mali on Friday in another indication of the growing
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An angry mob stoned to death a 17-year-old soldier in Central African Republic who had been freed from a rebel group and
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Newspapers in Liberia have printed black front pages after a government official was accused of threatening journalists.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian military helicopter has crashed in the country's oil-rich southern delta, just days after one of its jets crashed.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — An ethnic militia killed at least 20 police officers who launched a raid to try and arrest them in central Nigeria, a police
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement that they visited 12 employees of a South African bomb
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali is in the final stages of preparation for an assault on the northern provincial capital of Kidal, the last rebel-held
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — About 200 fighters loyal to former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will be repatriated from Togo after two years o
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The spokesman for the Malian military confirms that the army is preparing for an assault on Kidal, the last rebel-held town in
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea's leading human rights group confirmed that a member of the country's paramilitary police unit was found guilty of
