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...
Angola have appointed Brazil's Roberto Bianchi as their new coach, the football federation said on Wednesday. The 50-year-old, who has previously worked in Jordan, Spain, Montenegro and Indonesia...
The president of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika has designated the Speaker of the People’s National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) Dr Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa to represent him in the...
Three jihadist groups operating in the Sahel region have merged to form one single organisation, Mauritania's private news agency ANI said Thursday, citing a video distributed by the Islamists. Among...
Gambian President Adama Barrow is expected in Senegal for a three-day official visit. It is Barrow’s first official visit outside of the Gambia since taking his oath in Senegal on January 20. The...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has ended a 10-day tour of Africa. Mr Infantino began the trip with a three-day visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, where a two-day forum was organised on how the...
Trade has picked up on a contested road in Western Sahara on Morocco's border with Mauritania after tensions eased between troops and separatists, officials and truck drivers said Wednesday. Moroccan...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino vows to honour a promise to hike Africa's World Cup finals berths to nine or ten during a visit to the impoverished West African state of Mauritania this week. "We...
Tanzania on Monday backed out of its plan to publish a list of names of gay people accused of selling sex online, saying this would "destroy evidence". Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla had...
France is to send a contingent of counterterror forces to help the army in Niger after militants ambushed a military patrol killing 16, the defence ministry said. The decision, announced late...
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take "urgent measures" following months of tensions with the Polisario independence movement in the disputed Western Sahara region. The...
Kenya has been ranked top in Africa in cases of police shootings and killing of civilians according to a report by Amnesty International shows. The report indicates that by October 2016, a total of...
Speaker of the Parliament has called for an amendment of the constitution to completely ban homosexuality in Ghana. It is a fact known by all that Ghana’s “Akwaaba” is for all but homosexuals...
Speaker of the Parliament has called for an amendment of Ghana’s constitution to completely ban homosexuality. It is a fact known by all that Ghana’s “Akwaaba” is for all but homosexuals and...
A proposal by Zambian football authorities to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians has kicked off a dispute over homosexuality, which is illegal in the country and widely seen as immoral. The...
Thousands celebrated Saturday as new Gambian President Adama Barrow retook his oath of office, a month after he was sworn in across the border in neighbouring Senegal during a tense power struggle....
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, managed to make reference to former Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, during his trip to the country on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Johnson in a...
The Minister for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, has announced that Ghana’s soldiers in the ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia, will be downsized to 50 soldiers. He says this is in line with current...
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, managed to make reference to former Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, during his trip to the country on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Johnson in a...
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, says the government will roll out a programme to enforce the law on illegal mining. The programme,...
