General Assimi Goïta, Mali's junta leader, has signed a controversial law granting himself a five-year presidential mandate -- renewable indefinitely and without election -- sparking widespread ...

Ghanaian authorities want miners to cover deployment costs, estimated at GH₵250,000 ($18,116) per contingent daily of under 50 personnel ...

Rights groups call out state repression after violent crackdown on protests against Faure Gnassingbe’s extended rule.

In Gold Fields' Tarkwa mine in Ghana, a high-tech cat-and-mouse game is playing out with increasing frequency as record gold prices draw more unofficial activity.

Holidaymakers have been issued a warning as a crucial vaccine will be 'unavailable' for the next 2-3 weeks. Sanofi has ...

As I wrote in several articles, my sojourn in Europe was a culture shock on many levels . The most profound was how Europeans separate their rhetoric from their actions .

Welcome to our live blog covering the latest from across Africa. Follow real-time updates on political transitions, security ...

Prominent legal practitioner, Ayo Obe, is one of the most recognisable icons of the June 12 struggle and the ...

They discovered abandoned clothing, freshly dug trenches ... Similar requests have been made in Burkina Faso and Mali, according to three mining executives and an industry analyst, who requested ...

U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps ...

In Africa, the private sector is widely seen as the main engine of industrialization and plays a central role in the long-term development strategies of governments. However, it remains dominated by ...

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo is Burkina Faso’s only ophthalmologist who specializes in treating children. She is one of just 70 eye doctors for the West African nation's 23 million people.