Niger Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, who has been stuck outside the country since last week’s coup, appealed to the international community on Tuesday to help his country restore democracy.
Ivory Coast's nationalist former president Henri Konan Bedie, who had not excluded the possibility of a return to power even in his latter days, has died aged 89, his party said.
Voters joined long queues on Thursday to cast their ballots in landmark local elections in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland, the first direct ballot in more than half a century.
Police in Kinshasa lobbed teargas to disperse a group of opposition leaders and their followers from accessing the offices of the electoral commission in a protest against what they term the electoral chaos that they believe is looming in the Democratic Republic of…
Ousmane Sonko, the popular Senegalese opposition leader facing a rape trial, said that he would lead a "caravan of freedom" across the country as he travels to face judges in Dakar.
From the scorching summer heat to war profiteers and bureaucratic foot-dragging, Sudanese fleeing battles at home have encountered many obstacles but also help from strangers on the long road to safety in Egypt.
Yusra Ghannouchi, who is the daughter of jailed Tunisia’s opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, has condemned her father’s arrest citing gross human rights violation by the current regime of President Kais Saied.
Russia said Thursday African leaders would visit Moscow next month or early July under a peace initiative for the Ukraine conflict announced by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
A South African town was forced to shut down part of its power-generating solar panels to comply with national grid's Eskom schedule of daily blackouts.
North of Khartoum, in the Sudanese Nile River State, the combat zone seems far away but its destructive effects are deeply felt.
The 1-month long fighting has deepened the humanitarian crisis in the country, where one in three people already relied on humanitarian…