Two journalists from Mali's state broadcaster ORTM have appeared in a video released by the armed Islamist group JNIM, more than six weeks after they were abducted in the centre of the country.

Four Malian employees of Barrick Mining have been released a year after they were detained in the capital Bamako amid a dispute between the company and the government, three sources told Reuters on ...

Prime minister Ousmane Sonko of Senegal presides over the opening ceremony of the first edition of the west African festival ...

DAKAR, Senegal — In West Africa’s latest military takeover , soldiers in Guinea-Bissau followed up a disputed presidential ...

The opposition has accused the president of putting a general in charge of the government so that he could stay in power and ...

When Malian singer Amadou Bagayoko fell sick this past spring, those around him assumed he would recover. "C'est le palu." "It's malaria," he told one acquaintance, not an uncommon affliction for a ...

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau who seized power following disputed elections earlier this week have appointed Ilídio Vieira Té, a ...

Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has left the country for Senegal after being detained during a military coup, ...

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appeared on state television to say they have seized power in the country following reports of ...

The new military leader of Guinea-Bissau appointed an ally of the ousted president as prime minister on Friday, as ...

Guinea-Bissau's ousted president has found refuge in neighbouring Senegal following a military power grab, drawing condemnation from the United Nations, Ecowas and the African Union. Guinea-Bissau's ...