As Africa's smuggling capital, a dusty city in central Niger has found its local football team boosted by an unexpected influx of new players: migrants in limbo awaiting passage to Europe. Located on...
The migrants pouring into Europe have changed routes: the crossing between Turkey and Greece is practically closed, but ever greater numbers are risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean between...
Uche's real journey had yet to begin but he had already spent four days in the northern Nigerian city of Kano after travelling on public buses and potholed roads from Imo state in the southeast. He...
Tunisia captain Youssef Msakni starred in a 1-0 victory over Egypt Monday that completed the first series of qualifiers for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The Qatar-based midfielder set...
Ghana's faint hopes of making the 2018 World Cup have been boosted as qualifying group leaders Egypt were seriously exposed on Sunday when they were defeated 1-0 by Tunisia. Egypt's defensive...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will on Monday meet African leaders in Berlin on initiatives aiming to reduce the poverty and conflict driving a mass migrant influx to Europe. The idea is to team up...
African Union chairman Alpha Conde on Sunday put himself forward as a mediator in the crisis between Qatar and other Gulf countries, urging dialogue after several African nations also recalled their...
France on Friday sought to address US reservations over its request that the United Nations offer political and financial backing to an African military force that will be fighting jihadists in the...
A powerful Al-Qaeda-linked group on Friday claimed an attack on a United Nations camp that killed three peacekeepers in Kidal in Mali's troubled north. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims, a...
A-38-year-old driver of a DAF articulated truck, Imoro Awudu lost his life on Thursday, in an accident that occurred at the same spot that claimed the lives of 61 people last year at the outskirts of...
Despite defeats in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group has reorganized and is now "more focused than ever" on attacking Europe and other areas outside that conflict zone, a senior UN official...
A truck driver arrested over the theft of 1,600 bags of salt, valued at GHȼ48,000.00, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court. Abdul Rahman Mohammed was additionally...
France has asked the UN Security Council to authorise the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight jihadists and criminality in the Sahel region, with a vote expected as early as...
France will ask the UN Security Council to authorize an African military force for the Sahel region that will be sent to root out jihadists and drug traffickers, the French ambassador said Tuesday. A...
The European Union has agreed to give more than 50m euros to fund a new African joint military force in the Sahel region. The force will be made up of troops from Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso...
Around 30 Cameroonian soldiers fighting the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram were arrested after a demonstration to demand the payment of bonuses and some leave, the defence ministry said Monday....
Ecowas forces in Guinea-Bissau started withdrawing over the weekend. ECOWAS forces in Guinea-Bissau started withdrawing over the weekend. A first group of 65 men from the 5th Nigerian contingent of...
The EU is giving 50 million euros to set up a joint African military force in the Sahel region to fight jihadists, the bloc's foreign affairs chief said Monday. The funds will help pay for the troops...
The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, has died. Dr Osotimehin, who also served as the Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, died on...
French forces operating in northern Mali said Friday that they had taken "out of action" around 20 militants in operations against jihadist groups this week. Soldiers taking part in Operation...
