Africa, World

Abdoul Hamid Adiamoh, Nigerian publisher and editor of  Today, a privately-owned Banjul-based, newspaper previously accused by the police of...

South Africa should consider temporarily declaring asylum seekers from certain Southern African countries as refugees, to keep up with the burgeoning...

More Africans are risking transatlantic crossings to Europe after Mauritania’s military coup last week, according to Jerome Dukiya, a Catholic priest...

UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health of Guinea Bissau in fighting a cholera epidemic that has quickly spread across the country, and is...

Hissen Habre, the former President of Chad, has received a death sentence for plotting to overthrow the Chadian government. He is currently in exile...

Zimbabweans are turning to fuel coupons as a new form of "currency" after struggling to find local money, which continues to lose its value steeply. ...

Disaster relief teams have fanned out across West Africa to assess how badly the region was hit during the past month of heavy rains. Tens of...

Petrol tankers parked nose-to-tail line the five-kilometre stretch of road from the southern Nigerian town of Eleme to its refinery, waiting to fuel...

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza never previously registered in sub-Saharan Africa has been detected in northern Nigeria but local...

Bissau-based private radio station Pindjiqidy Radio broadcast early Wednesday a phone call from the head of Guinea Bissau’s navy, Jose Americo Bubo...