West Africa

ABUJA (Reuters) - Intense fire from bandits caused a Nigerian attack jet to crash in northwestern Zamfara State, but the...

MONROVIA (Reuters) - As many as 17 people were missing from a cargo ship that sank off the coast of...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians were abducted from a construction site in northern Mali on Saturday when...

MONROVIA (Reuters) -At least seven people are missing after a cargo ship that had been barred from sailing sank off...

By Ange Aboa ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A World Bank programme to help medical clinics in Ivory Coast procure equipment from...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria has put six states on red alert after seeing a "worrisome" rise in COVID-19 infections, a...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen abducted at least 60 people and killed one person in northwestern Nigeria after riding motorbikes into...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's daily COVID-19 cases nearly doubled overnight to its highest since the outbreak began, the health ministry...

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana has destroyed 4,500 chickens and restricted the movement of poultry after nearly 6,000 birds were found...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's President Macky Sall threatened on Friday to close the borders and re-impose a state of emergency...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian army general as he was travelling by car on a major road...

By Libby George and Estelle Shirbon LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - Shehu Ismaila Gbadebo has worked as a barber for two decades....

By Garba Muhammad KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Six students and two officials who were kidnapped last month from a school...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Militants killed at least 45 people in an attack on the town of Faru in northwest...

By Tangi Salaün and Bate Felix PARIS (Reuters) -France will soon begin reshaping its military presence in the Sahel region...

PARIS (Reuters) - France will be left with between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers in West Africa's Sahel region once it...

(Refiles to correct reporting credit) By Pap Saine BANJUL (Reuters) -Entire families wandered around the outskirts of Gambia's capital Banjul...

BAUCHI/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Suspected Islamist militants killed 18 people when they attacked a village in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, two...

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Kidnappers who abducted more than 100 students from a boarding school in Nigeria's Kaduna state warned...

By Libby George and Abraham Achirga KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Yusuf Lado had not yet learned to read or write...