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As Africa's smuggling capital, a dusty city in central Niger has found its local football team boosted by an unexpected ...

The migrants pouring into Europe have changed routes: the crossing between Turkey and Greece is practically closed, but ever greater ...

Uche's real journey had yet to begin but he had already spent four days in the northern Nigerian city of ...

Tunisia captain Youssef Msakni starred in a 1-0 victory over Egypt Monday that completed the first series of qualifiers for ...

Ghana's faint hopes of making the 2018 World Cup have been boosted as qualifying group leaders Egypt were seriously exposed ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will on Monday meet African leaders in Berlin on initiatives aiming to reduce the poverty and ...

African Union chairman Alpha Conde on Sunday put himself forward as a mediator in the crisis between Qatar and other ...

France on Friday sought to address US reservations over its request that the United Nations offer political and financial backing ...

A powerful Al-Qaeda-linked group on Friday claimed an attack on a United Nations camp that killed three peacekeepers in Kidal ...

A-38-year-old driver of a DAF articulated truck, Imoro Awudu lost his life on Thursday, in an accident that occurred at ...

Despite defeats in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group has reorganized and is now "more focused than ever" on ...

A truck driver arrested over the theft of 1,600 bags of salt, valued at GHȼ48,000.00, has been sentenced to eight ...

France has asked the UN Security Council to authorise the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight jihadists ...

France will ask the UN Security Council to authorize an African military force for the Sahel region that will be ...

The European Union has agreed to give more than 50m euros to fund a new African joint military force in ...

Around 30 Cameroonian soldiers fighting the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram were arrested after a demonstration to demand the payment ...

Ecowas forces in Guinea-Bissau started withdrawing over the weekend. ECOWAS forces in Guinea-Bissau started withdrawing over the weekend. A first ...

The EU is giving 50 million euros to set up a joint African military force in the Sahel region to ...

The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, has died. Dr Osotimehin, who also served ...

French forces operating in northern Mali said Friday that they had taken "out of action" around 20 militants in operations ...