West Africa

By Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) - Hundreds of opposition supporters marched through the streets of Ghana's capital Accra on Tuesday...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast began sending mobile clinics on Monday to markets and other busy areas in its main...

(Reuters) - Around 150 students are missing after armed men attacked a school in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state, a parent...

By Garba Muhammed KADUNA (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped up to eight people, including the one-year-old child of a nurse, from...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Thousands took to the streets of Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday to call for...

By Libby George and Camillus Eboh LAGOS/ABUJA (Reuters) - Both chambers of Nigeria's parliament have passed a bill that overhauls...

By Erikas Mwisi Kambale BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed overnight in a...

By Erikas Mwisi Kambale BENI, Congo (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo's army said on Monday an Islamist militia which claims...

By Camillus Eboh and Libby George ABUJA/LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria's senate presented a long-awaited oil overhaul bill to the full chamber...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's army said on Monday it had intercepted over 8 tonnes of cannabis after stopping a boat...

MAIDUGURI/ABUJA (Reuters) - A group of fighters from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram pledged allegiance to rivals the Islamic State...

DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Police in Cameroon fired tear gas on Saturday morning as they clashed with residents fighting eviction...