The security situation in Mali “remains worrying” despite recent troop deployments and some progress on the country’s peace accord, according to the head of the UN’s peacekeeping force. The...
Mali's football teams will not be able to compete while the ban is in place Mali's Football Association (FEMAFOOT) has been suspended by Fifa until further notice over government interference in...
Mali’s Football Association (FEMAFOOT) has been suspended by Fifa until further notice over government interference in football matters. Fifa acted after Mali Sports Minister Housseïni Amion...
Youssou Ndour, Senegal's most famous musician, is throwing his weight behind malaria eradication in his homeland to combat an illness that has for too long held back Africa's economic development....
The family of the late Sam Arday Tuesday paid separate courtesy calls on former Presidents Jerry John Rawlings and John Agyekum Kufuor to inform them about the funeral arrangements for the former...
Chad's former foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat assumed office as head of the African Union Commission on Tuesday, pledging to reform the institution and tackle the continent's many crises. Faki...
Two civilians and two Malian soldiers were killed Monday in an attack blamed on jihadists in the country's restive north. Mali's defence ministry confirmed two soldiers were killed and two injured...
The government must not use state resources to build religious edifices or fly pilgrims to holy sites, founder of policy think tank IMANI, Mr Franklin Cudjoe, has said. “Religion is a personal...
Mali is facing a possible Fifa suspension after the country’s sports minister missed a deadline to revoke his dissolution of the football federation’s Executive Committee. Mali Sports Minister...
Mali could be thrown out of the 2018 World Cup qualifying competition after the government sacked the national football federation leaders. The bottom-of-the-table west Africans are scheduled to play...
A jihadist alliance uniting Malian insurgents loyal to Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 11 soldiers close to Mali's border with Burkina Faso, its first such attack. The...
Niger has begun the trials behind closed doors of about 1,000 suspected fighters from the Boko Haram jihadist movement, officials said Friday. Chief prosecutor Chaibou Samna told AFP that the trials,...
Latest: I didn’t cause friction between Otiko and our mother —Bawa Mogtari We Blend Our Vision With Truth & Enlightenment Zimbabwe FA chairman Phillip Chiyangwa has escalated his war of words...
Zimbabwe FA chairman Phillip Chiyangwa has escalated his war of words with the Confederation of African Football (Caf) by threatening legal action against both its president and secretary general....
South Africa has formally revoked its controversial decision to leave the International Criminal Court following last month's High Court ruling that such a move would be unconstitutional. Notice of...
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has indicated he misses Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah. Speaking to journalists in Accra on Tuesday as part of his visit to Ghana for the 60th...
Rapper M.anifest over the weekend joined DJ Edu on BBC 1Xtra for a Ghanaian Independence Day special. M. Dot spoke about his career, upcoming projects and also dropped a fire freestyle. M.anifest...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday paid homage to Ghana’s forebears, expressing optimism that their struggle, vision and dreams that gave the nation independence would be achieved....
Tensions between armed groups who encircled Mali's fabled Timbuktu have prevented the head of a new regional body from taking charge in the former rebel-held city despite government assurances he...
The Planning Committee on Sunday announced that 14 African countries have confirmed their participation in Ghana’s 60th Independence Anniversary celebration on Monday, March 6. Jefferson Sackey,...
