CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military junta has set Sept. 21 as the date for a long-promised constitutional referendum ...

Twenty-one troops granted amnesty by Burkina Faso’s leader will reportedly rejoin the army to fight terrorism Read Full ...

The three Americans had their sentences reduced to life imprisonment ahead of an expected visit from a Trump official.

Uganda's Museveni Visits South Sudan For Mediation TalksUgandan President Yoweri Museveni is the latest high ranking African official to visit Juba, the South Sudan's capital, as tension rises in the ...

West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

Gabon's Brice Oligui Nguema will try to ride the advantages of incumbency and a popular crackdown on corruption to make the ...

ATHENS, March 30 (Reuters) - West African neighbours Mali ... who all took power in coups in recent years. It has since grown into an aspiring economic union with plans for biometric passports ...

Portuguese-speaking Guinea-Bissau -- gripped for months by tensions over claims the president's mandate has expired -- is one ...

A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

Twenty-one soldiers, convicted for their role in the failed coup d'état in Burkina Faso in September 2015, have received a ...