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The French army took over Côte d’Ivoire’s main airport on Sunday as the battle for Abidjan dragged into a fourth day.
Guinea is entering a delicate transition due to end within six months, with the first democratic presidential elections since 1958.
Kidnapping has become a lucrative business for al-Qaeda’s north African branch, experts said on Tuesday.
Africa will demand billions of dollars in compensation from polluting nations at a UN climate summit for the harm caused by global warming.
The Guinean army that turned a peaceful demonstration into a bloodbath is powerful and difficult to reform while it holds power, analysts say.
Per capita income in Africa will fall in 2009 for the first time in 15 years, the head of the African Development Bank warned on Tuesday.
Guinea’s opposition leaders have slammed the electoral commission’s decision to postpone the country’s first free elections since independence.
Recent violent unrest over soaring food prices in several West African nations points to new signs of trouble on a continent where nearly half the people live on a dollar a day,…
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi won Mauritania’s historic presidential election with 52,85% of the vote, the interior minister said on Monday. Ould Abdallahi, who was backed by…
After a historic change of power in 2000, Senegal, one of Africa’s oldest democracies, elects a new president on Sunday. Voters have a simple choice: to give a new mandate to…
Senegal will mark on Monday the 100th anniversary of the birth of "poet-president" Leopold Sedar Senghor, whose political and literary legacy will be honoured in events across…
”We talk of globalisation, of the global village, but here in Africa, we are under the impression of being that village’s septic tank,” says Senegalese ecologist Haidar al-Ali. A…
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Friday urged African leaders gathered for a landmark summit to overcome decades of suspicion and bring hope to those living in the…
The families of Kenyan truck drivers kidnapped in Iraq have criticised their government and urged France to step in and mediate the release of the hostages, whose execution was…
