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Around 40 killed in attack on central Mali village

Unidentified armed men have killed around 40 people in an attack on a village in insurgent-plagued central Mali, local officials

Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani comfortably won re-election, receiving 56.12 percent of the vote in the first round

Floods and landslides killed at least 24 people in 10 days in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire’s largest city, authorities said Monday

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Ghana’s capital Accra, on Saturday, June 8, to demand an end to

Days of intensive negotiations between labour unions and the Nigerian government failed to yield a consensus in the minimum pay

Guinea has signed a preliminary deal with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) to build the nation’s second alumina refinery. Estimated at

The World Bank Group has approved a 250-million-U.S. dollar loan to support Ghana’s financial sector stability program over the next

Nigerian troops have rescued sixty-four women and children who were kidnapped by criminal gangs weeks ago in northwestern Zamfara state,

Chad swore in Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno as the president on Thursday after elections were held on May 6. Mahamat

Nigeria on Tuesday raised salaries for government workers by between 25 percent and 35 percent backdated to January, the salaries