Leaders of the west African regional grouping Ecowas approved the long-awaited withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso ...

The three countries of the AES are set to leave ECOWAS. The existential shock could lead to a rejuvenation of the West ...

African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed ...

Protests erupted in Guinea’s capital after the ruling junta missed its deadline for initiating a democratic transition, ...

Guinea's ruling junta missed a Dec. 31 deadline for a promised return to democracy and an opposition leader was sent to jail ...

A Guinean court on Tuesday handed an opposition figure two years in prison for "insulting and defaming" the head of the ruling junta, according to an AFP journalist.

A Guinean court sentenced opposition leader Mamadou Aliou Bah to two years in prison for insulting the nation’s transitional ...

Senegalese and Chadian leaders say the ousting of French troops from their territories was their sovereign decision, ...

The Israeli military launched a wave of raids across the occupied West Bank overnight and into Tuesday, killing at least ...

An anti-junta protest planned by Guinea's opposition but banned by the military-led authorities disrupted trade and transport in the capital Conakry on Monday, according to an AFP correspondent.

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the ...

Ivory Coast is the sixth in a growing list of African nations cutting military ties with former colonial power France.