Ivory Coast said Wednesday that it had granted citizenship to Burkina Faso’s former president, Blaise Compaore, potentially dashing hopes he could be extradited to his neighboring native country for his role in a high-profile...
An African Union delegation continues its visit to Burundi Friday to push parties to the Burundian conflict toward a dialogue. The delegation, led by South African President Jacob Zuma, was expected to meet with...
NAIROBI, KENYA Kenyan police have received 30 armored personnel carriers to be used in areas of the country worst hit by terrorism. Security analysts say that is a good step, but Kenya needs to...
Authorities in Ghana say at least 53 people died in a collision between a bus and a truck on a highway north of the capital, Accra, Wednesday night. Ghana’s President John Mahama tweeted a...
NAIROBI, KENYA The Kenyan government is planning to build a new prison to confine only terrorist suspects and sympathizers. The facility is intended to deter the spread of terrorist ideology. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Militant Islamist group al-Shabab has denied that its intelligence chief has been killed in a Kenyan air strike in southern Somalia. Mohammed Karatey and 10 other al-Shabab commanders were killed in the strike on...
YAOUNDE Cameroon says its soldiers have liberated the northeastern Nigerian town of Goshi from Boko Haram and handed it to the Nigerian government. A spokesman for the government of Cameroon said more than 160...
HARARE, ZIMBABWE Authorities in Zimbabwe are holding a cargo plane registered by a U.S. company after it was found with a bloody corpse on board when it stopped for refueling Sunday in Harare. The...
The Liberian government said it has asked the United States to assist in the investigation of the mysterious death of Harry Greaves, former managing director of the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company, whose partly decomposed...
European Union foreign ministers say they are prepared to increase economic sanctions on Burundi which has been in a political crisis since July when President Pierre Nkurunziza won a third term. The EU ministers...
