The Senegalese navy has launched a large-scale search operation to locate three sailors who went missing after their patrol boat capsized in poor weather conditions.
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Nigeria announced on Friday that it will hold the vote on February 20 next year, with a staggered timetable for legislative elections the same day. The vote is expected to see President Bola Tinubu seek another term.
At least 38 people were killed when a cyclone slammed into Madagascar's second-largest city this week, authorities said Thursday, as Mozambique braced for the storm's arrival
Senegal's largest university said Thursday it had suspended student associations after violent demonstrations over scholarship payments turned deadly.
The bodies of two Nigerians fighting for Russia have been found in eastern Ukraine, the country’s authorities said Thursday.
On Thursday, exiled Malian imam Mahmoud Dicko Dicko urged an end to the jihadist violence engulfing the Sahel countries, insisting, ‘we must find a solution for the entire sub-region’.
Access to electricity in Africa was a central topic at the recent World Governments Summit in Dubai. While hundreds of millions of Africans still live without power, new solutions are emerging, particularly around solar-powered micro-grids.
Mass Russian drone strikes hit Ukraine’s Odesa region overnight, killing one and injuring six, damaging port and energy sites and disrupting basic city services.
On the 'Lover's Canal' in Ganvie, a lake village in Benin, love can flow in unusual ways. Long a place for chance encounters, this stretch of water has over the years become a favoured meeting spot for young men and women in search of a soulmate
It includes the possibility of imposing a “naval blockade” on ships carrying migrants for a period of up to six months.
