N'Dour, Saariaho share Sweden's Polar Music Prize
Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been awarded the international 2013 Polar Music Prize, Sweden's most ...
Mali military gains control of Ber in north
Soldiers from Mali and Burkina Faso pushed into the village of Ber, located 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Timbuktu, which had previously been ...
Nigerian military plane crashes in Niger; 2 dead
An airport official in the capital of Niger says a military plane from Nigeria has crashed, killing the two people aboard. Chaibou Massalatchi, the ...
In CAR, diamonds are a rebel's best friend
Armed with rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov rifles, Seleka rebels who ousted Central African Republic's president six weeks ago are ...
Zimbabwe's president: New tasks for Africa's spies
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe urged African intelligence services Monday to prepare for fresh onslaughts by foreigners and the continent's former ...
Tuareg leaders announce new group in northern Mali
Tuareg leaders in northern Mali have formed a new group which they say will aim to negotiate with the Malian government, as questions linger over the ...
SAfrican firm tries to free 12 workers in Senegal
A South African company which specializes in the removal of land mines has reached out to the government of Senegal and to the United Nations to try ...
Police: 39 killed in Nigerian ethnic clash
Police say at least 39 people have been killed in ethnic violence in a rural town in Nigeria. The attack happened Friday in Wukari, a town in ...
Audit: Contracts awarded in Liberia violate law
The Liberian government awarded about $8 billion in contracts to multinational companies without following its own laws, according to a draft of a new ...
Shell CEO Voser to retire in 2014
Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday Chief Executive Peter Voser will step down in early 2014, and the company reported lower first-quarter profits in ...
Peace Corps volunteer dies in Ghana
A spokeswoman for the United States Embassy in Accra confirms that a Peace Corps volunteer has died in Ghana. Zainab Mahama declined to provide ...
Activists call for release of imam in Gambia
Activists in Gambia are calling on the government to release an imam who has been jailed for five months. Imam Baba Leigh has been missing since ...
France: jihadist convert arrested in Mali
French troops in Mali have arrested a French citizen who converted to Islam, took on the jihadist cause and threatened his native country in a video ...
Logging permits are being abused in Africa
Logging permits designed to promote small businesses are being allocated by the hundreds to industrial logging companies in West and Central Africa ...
Meningitis outbreak kills at least 40 in Guinea
Health officials say a meningitis outbreak has killed at least 40 people in the West African nation of Guinea. Conde Lansine, a doctor in the eastern ...
A terrorist sleeper cell dismantled in Mali
Police in Mali's capital have dismantled a terrorist cell belonging to the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, three officials ...
Cameroon's ruling party wins Senate election
The party of Cameroon's entrenched ruler Paul Biya won 56 of the 70 contested seats in the nation's first-ever senatorial election, the Supreme Court ...
Guinea-Bissau acting president says elections soon
Guinea-Bissau's interim president pledged to hold elections before the end of the year. Interim President Manuel Serifo Mhamadjo spoke to the press ...
Official: 17 killed in northern Nigeria violence
A military official says at least 17 people have been killed in fighting between Islamic extremists and security forces in northeastern Nigeria.
Ivory Coast: We are "open" to investigating crimes
Ivory Coast's justice minister says the government is open to investigating top security officials accused by United Nations experts of raking in ...
Adichie focuses on Nigeria's present for new novel
The traffic is there, grinding life to a halt as the middle class pound out messages on BlackBerry mobile phones and worry about Facebook. The heat, ...
Watchdog: 5 sailors kidnapped off Nigeria coast
An anti-piracy watchdog says five sailors have been kidnapped off the coast of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta. The International Maritime Bureau ...
Lonely year for French president at time of crisis
The sounds of raucous protest echo in the Presidential Palace, unemployment is rising to levels not seen in over a decade, and his country's economy ...
Central African Republic elephant poaching rises
Elephant meat is flooding food markets in villages near a famed wildlife reserve in Central African Republic one month after rebels believed to be ...
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