West Africa

YAMOUSSOUKRO (Reuters) - Patrick Achi has been reappointed as prime minister of Ivory Coast after he resigned from the post...

(Fixes formatting of byline) By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's electoral commission on Friday suspended voter registration in most parts of oil-producing Imo state after an...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria will next year conduct its first census in 17 years to try to accurately survey its...

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 29 people died when a boat capsized in Nigeria's Sokoto state in the northwest...

By Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) - It was market day in the town of Moura in central Mali when Malian...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Unidentified armed men killed seven border police and four National Guard members in separate attacks in different...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi tabled his resignation and that of his government on Wednesday as...

COTONOU (Reuters) - Five soldiers were killed by suspected Islamist militants in northern Benin's Pendjari National Park, two military sources...

By Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) - There was no meat in the large silver bowl around which Astou Mandiang and...

PARIS (Reuters) -France's foreign ministry on Monday declared six Russian agents posing as diplomats as "persona non grata" after an...

By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday he wanted to run for president next...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will halt part of its training of Mali's armed forces, the EU's top diplomat...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Suspected Islamists killed at least 20 civilians in attacks on Sunday and Monday...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 50 people were killed and dozens abducted by gunmen in Nigeria's Plateau state, residents...

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's former president, Alpha Conde, ousted in a military coup in September, returned to the country on...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu should stand trial and answer to charges that include...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -At least 12 soldiers and four paramilitary fighters were killed and 21 wounded in an attack on an...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's former President Roch Kabore, who had been under house arrest since he was toppled in a...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity...