West Africa

A Nigerian court on Wednesday denied a bail request for separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, who is standing trial on terrorism...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Nigeria says it's arrested the country's accountant-general, Ahmed Idris, on suspicion he diverted...

President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea-Bissau dissolved the country's parliament on Monday, accusing MPs of corruption and other concerns. The...

Mali's military junta On Monday declared it had foiled an attempted coup last week headed by army commanders and sponsored...

Global tech giant Google has added 24 new languages spoken by more than 300 million people to its Google Translate...

Mali is withdrawing from a multinational military group fighting an armed insurgency in West Africa's Sahel area, according to the...

The killing of Miss Deborah Samuel, a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto in northern Nigeria for...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari ordered all his ministers who wish to contest in next year's election to resign by Monday...

A Malian judge has summoned French Foreign Minister Jean Yves le Drian, as part of an investigation into an "attack...

President Macky Sall has announced "emergency" cash transfers to more than half a million Senegalese households to help them cope...