Academic work is set to resume in Nigerian universities as lecturers there suspend an eight-month old strike.
The aggrieved lecturers have been demanding better funding...
Hundreds of people have been displaced in Ghana's capital Accra after torrential rains continue to wreck havoc in parts of the country.
The rains have...
Burkina Faso's ousted military leader, Lt Col Paul-Henri Damiba has reportedly fled to neighbouring Togo after stepping down.
Damiba seized power in January this year...
34-year-old Captain Ibrahim Traoré is Burkina Faso's new junta leader and West Africa’s current youngest leader.
Capt Traoré toppled his former boss, Lt Col Paul-Henri...
Burkina Faso army Captain Ibrahim Traore has ousted military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and dissolved the government.
That is the second coup in eight months in...
At least 11 soldiers have been killed and 50 civilians reported missing after armed fighters attacked a military convoy.
The 150-vehicle military-escorted convoy was taking...
