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In receipts left in Timbuktu, researchers have found al-Qaeda tracks its cash flow, recording purchases from $1.80 soap to a workshop costing $4 000.
The CAR army has been able to stop heavily armed assailants who tried to storm the presidential palace and the embattled leader’s residence.
A team of Al Jazeera journalists has been detained for three days in eastern Niger, where they are being held inside a prison cell.
In August 2012, a handful of heroes conspired to save Timbuktu’s prized manuscripts. The ingenious plan involved empty rice sacks, a boat and Bamako.
Rebel groups have recruited young boys to fight the messy war in northern Mali, a conflict that now includes 2 500 well-armed French soldiers.
Central African Republic’s neighbours are to send soldiers to intervene in the troubled country, where rebels are trying to overthrow its leader.
Senegal’s presidential candidates have held their final rallies as protesters marched in the streets. Tensions are high ahead of Sunday’s poll.
Protesters have seized control of a three-block stretch in Senegal’s capital Dakar as they demand the departure of aging President Abdoulaye Wade.
Senegalese police have killed at least one person during a protest against a court ruling allowing the nation’s leader to run for another term.
Foreign military intervention has caused too much suffering in Africa, says the AU’s chair, in a message seen as a jab at Nato’s airstrikes in Libya.
UN investigators in Côte d’Ivoire have determined there were at least 68 bodies in a mass grave discovered on a soccer field in Abidjan.
Côte d’Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo is negotiating his surrender, a diplomat said on Tuesday after UN and French forces bombarded military sites.
The government of Alassane Ouattara said on Monday rebels allied with their leader had seized a nearly 50km corridor along Côte d’Ivoire’s border.
The United Nations said armed men blocked about 60 families without food or water from leaving a church in Abidjan on Tuesday.
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo made an unannounced visit to Côte d’Ivoire, arriving late on Saturday for a meeting with Laurent Gbagbo.
Less than 24 hours before Guinea’s elections results were due, one of the candidates said he would not accept the outcome.
Coup leaders in Guinea named a civilian banker as prime minister, making good on a key promise a week after seizing power.
Guinea’s long-ruling dictator, Lansana Conte, died after a lengthy illness, the head of the National Assembly announced early on Tuesday.
Officials began counting ballots late on Sunday in one of Africa’s rare democracies, where voters are painfully aware of the example they are setting.
To compete in the Scrabble competition, Elisee Poka spent five days in a bus traversing potholed roads. His competitors from France arrived by plane.
