Ghana's ruling party voted on Saturday in primaries to elect its candidate for next year's presidential ballot, with Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia widely favoured to win.The West African country is undergoing its worst economic trouble in years, an...

President William Ruto says change aims to boost trade and allow goods, services, people, and ideas to move freely across the continent.As part of a push to promote trade and travel inside the continent, other African people will no longer need a vis...

Although the demise of the Islamic State terrorist group was announced by the international coalition combating ISIS in March 2019, the terrorists’ threat of resurgence remains high, especially in Syria, politically and security-fragile countries, an...

Zimbabwean voters went to the polls on Wednesday, August 23, in a presidential election tainted by accusations, amid major economic crises facing the southern African country.Despite the growing hopes for the possibility of changing the usual faces o...

After army officers in Niger turned against the elected president, most of the countries in Africa’s Sahel region are being led by a military officer or a former military officer, with Niger becoming the sixth African country in which the military ha...

West African leaders deferred a crisis meeting due on Saturday on dealing with the coup in Niger after approving the deployment of a "standby force to restore constitutional order" as soon as possible.The Economic Community of West African States (EC...

The African Union on Friday expressed "deep concern" at the reported poor conditions of Niger President Mohamed Bazoum's detention, calling his treatment at the hands of coup leaders "unacceptable"."Such treatment of a democratically elected presiden...

The Niger general who staged a coup on Friday declared himself the new leader of the jihadist-hit African nation and warned that any foreign military intervention would lead to chaos.General Abdourahamane Tchiani, head of the Presidential Guard since...

French President Emmanuel Macron described a coup that ousted Niger's elected leader as "dangerous" for the Sahel on Friday, as Western powers scramble to preserve a key ally in the insurgent-stricken region."This coup is completely illegitimate and...

A high-level African delegation was preparing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, a day after its calls for talks between Moscow and Kyiv were rebuffed by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.The diplomatic team had gone to Kyiv...

Protests erupted in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, in early June, after a court sentenced prominent dissident Osmane Sonko to two years in prison on charges of “corrupting youth”, which reduces his chances of running in next year's presidential elect...

Niger's defence ministry said Friday its troops killed 79 "terrorists" in operations last week that involved a foray into neighbouring Mali.Troops from the army's anti-jihadist Almahaou operation began the search after they were attacked by an "armed...