West Africa

The President of The Gambia Adama Barrow has announced his intention to roll out reforms in the country’s prisons system.

At least seven were killed in an attack carried out by Islamist Group Boko Haram against a military post in the north east of...

Funds from a dollar bank account in the name of the Jammeh Foundation for Peace, a charity founded by Gambia's former president Yahya Jammeh, flowed to Jammeh himself, not to foundation projects, according to bank records and interviews with a former charity official and a former presidential staff member.

Nigeria has postponed for three months a trade conference meant to drum up badly-needed investment due to the temporary closure of its capital's international airport, the organisers said on Friday.

Reports of imported gari packaged as "Ïndian gari" displayed and sold to the public in a Lagos supermarket, came as a rude shock and...

Militants ambushed an army patrol in Niger on Thursday, killing 15 soldiers and wounding 19, the Defense Ministry said, occurring in an area near...

Senegalese authorities have arrested two suspected foreign jihadists in Dakar, including one who had been in contact with the mastermind of an attack on an Ivory Coast hotel a year ago.

Ex-Gambian Spy Chief, Yankuba Badjie, has officially been charged with the death of a top political figure, Ebrima Solo Sandeng.

The German military plans to beef up security for a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali by deploying a number of tethered aerostats - small...

The government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on parts of central Nigeria, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, after clashes killed at least 14...