Dakar (dpa) – Police in Senegal on Sunday fired tear gas at the polling station in the capital Dakar where President Abdoulaye Wade was registered to cast a vote in a runoff election pitting him against his former prime minister Macky Sall.
The (...)
Dakar (dpa) – Residents of Mali's capital Bamako awoke Saturday morning to long lines at petrol stations amid concerns that the city's fuel supplies were running low following this week's coup.
Witnesses told dpa that people were conserving fuel, (...)
Dakar (dpa) – Mutinous troops in Mali claimed to have ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure in a coup on Thursday after overrunning the presidential palace and taking control of broadcasting stations.
A spokesman for the troops said they had (...)
Dakar (dpa) – An imminent hunger crisis in West Africa's Sahel region is already provoking desperate behavior with many struggling to feed their families, according to a new report Wednesday.
About 11 million people are estimated to be affected, (...)
Dakar (dpa) – About 1.5 million people could face a severe food crisis in the western Sahel, the UN children's organization UNICEF said from its Dakar office on Friday.
According to the agency, more than a million children face severe and acute (...)
DAKAR: The fight to save elephants from ivory poachers in Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida national park has reached new, deadly levels, with at least two people killed and about 400 elephants slaughtered since January, rights group say.
A poacher, a (...)
DAKAR (dpa) – About 13 million people are facing severe food shortages in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa, the international agency Oxfam said on Friday.
The current food crisis could escalate into a “full scale humanitarian (...)
DAKAR/KINSHASA (dpa): At least 150 people have been killed in a blast at a munitions dump in Congo Brazzaville, local media reported Sunday.
According to Kinshasa-based Radio Okapi, Brazzaville police chief Charles Bisengimana confirmed the (...)
Dakar/Abuja (dpa) – Thousands of Nigerians traveled to south-eastern Nigeria on Friday for the burial of Biafran independence leader Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Nigerian television reported.
Ojukwu declared independence for the region of Biafra in 1967. (...)
Dakar (dpa) – Voting was underway Sunday in Senegal's presidential election, where incumbent leader Abdoulaye Wade is standing for a controversial third term.
The capital, Dakar, has been rocked by daily protests in the run-up to the vote. The (...)
Dakar (dpa) – Fighting between government forces and Touareg fighters seeking independence in the north of Mali has displaced some 124,000 people, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
More than 63,000 people have been displaced (...)
Dakar/Abuja (dpa) – At least one person was killed Monday and several injured when a freak storm hit Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, local media reported.
Torrential rain and strong winds pounded the city in the early hours of Monday morning, (...)
Dakar (dpa) – About 100 Tuaregs have been executed in northern Mali, French broadcaster Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported Monday.
The Tuaregs were executed in the northern town of Aguelhok during a recent offensive between the government (...)
Dakar (dpa) – Fans across Africa mourned the death of African-American singer Whitney Houston on Monday, as radio stations, restaurants and bars played tributes to the 48-year-old, who died at the weekend in Los Angeles.
Houston, whose vocals (...)
Dakar (dpa) – Rights activists and opposition supporters in Senegal urged President Abdoulaye Wade to pull out of upcoming elections Wednesday, following protests that have so far left at least four dead.
Protesters and police clashed in Dakar on (...)
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – The death toll two days after coordinated bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Kano had risen to 180, hospital sources said Sunday.
Officials put the death toll at 120, but medics at one of Kano's largest hospitals (...)
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – At least 165 people were killed in coordinated bomb attacks in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, witnesses and hospital sources said late Saturday.
Medics said the death toll was expected to climb further.
The streets (...)
Abuja (dpa) – The confirmed death toll from coordinated bombings in the northern Nigerian city of Kano climbed to 10 on Saturday, officials said.
Paramedics told dpa that the death toll from the Friday afternoon attacks could rise. Many of those (...)
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – Members and sympathisers of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram can be found across all sectors of society, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan said late Sunday.
The president spoke out during a service held at a (...)
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – At least 16 people were killed and 12 wounded in a shoot-out at a town hall in the northern Nigerian town of Mubi, television reports said Friday.
The attack reportedly targeted southern Nigerians who were visiting the (...)
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – At least three people were killed in a bomb explosion at a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri after Friday prayers, police sources said.
Several more worshipers were wounded, police said.
Maiduguri is the (...)
Abuja (dpa) – Christians living in Nigeria's violence-prone northern towns were fleeing for the south Tuesday, amid fears of further attacks from the radical Islamist group Boko Haram.
At least 40 people were killed on Christmas day bombings of (...)
Monrovia/Abuja (dpa) – Relatives and friends of those killed in Nigeria's Christmas Day church blasts have been holding memorial services.
Services were held on Monday and Tuesday at the St Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, a town about 20 (...)