West Africa

Fifty-three soldiers and one civilian were killed Friday in a "terrorist attack" on a Mali military post in the northeast of the country, the government said.The assault is one of the deadliest strikes against Mali's military in recent Islamist militant...

Foreign-run shops, mostly belonging to Nigerians, were forcibly closed on Thursday in Kumasi, Ghana's second-largest city, by angry shopkeepers, the president of Ghana's trade union said on Friday.Joseph Obeng, president of the Ghana Union of Traders Association condemned what...

Aker Energy’s planned development of an oilfield in Ghana faces delay due to a disagreement with authorities over regulations, Norwegian investment company Aker ASA said on Friday.Aker said in May it expected Ghanaian authorities to approve a $4.4 billion...

Speaking calmly through tears, in a hearing streamed live on YouTube, former beauty queen Fatou Jallow told how Gambia’s ex-president Yahya Jammeh locked her in a room and raped her.The 23-year-old’s testimony on Thursday concluded three weeks of public...

Gunmen launched a deadly predawn raid Wednesday on a military base in southeastern Niger's Diffa region, which has been a target of Boko Haram jihadists, local sources said.It is the latest in an increasingly brazen string of attacks near...

Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by the main opposition candidate to overturn the result of February’s presidential election in which Muhammadu Buhari was returned to office.Atiku Abubakar lodged his initial complaint with the country’s election tribunal,...

The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, has described the damage done by oil exploration in Nigeria as an environmental genocide.Speaking to the BBC as part of a commission investigating the impact of multinational oil companies in the southern Bayelsa...

Guinea-Bissau's President José Mário Vaz sacked his government on Monday "with immediate effect," creating doubts over next month's election, news agency AFP reports.Mr Vaz said the decision, which was read out on national radio, was based on what he...

The University of Ghana is looking into the allegations against staff in a BBC investigation, which found teachers harassing would-be students.The "Sex for Grades" documentary showed university lecturers at both the University of Ghana and the University of Lagos...

Suspected jihadists killed 16 villagers in northern Burkina Faso on Monday in an incident highlighting the increased presence of Sahel-based Islamists in the area, local and security sources said.The gunmen came to Pobe-Mengao, about 200 km (160 miles) north...