About 40 people have been killed in recent clashes between jihadists and traditional hunters, the government of central Mali’s Mopti region said Monday, with the fighting displacing around 1,000 people.  The war-torn region’s government said in a statement that clashes…

The investigating judge in charge of financial crimes in Nouakchott decided to resume, this week, the interrogation of the former Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, accused of corruption, embezzlement of public funds and illicit enrichment.  According to Al Quds…

China’s Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining on Monday cancelled an agreement to buy the Bibiani gold mine in Ghana, saying it had not received timely information from the seller about the termination of the mining lease. Australia-based Resolute Mining agreed to…

The Sierra Leone People’s Party {SLPP} has forced it way into laying of an order paper during an emergency summon of Parliament. The opposition is still protesting the controversial mid-term population and housing census which was pronounced last year by…

In Senegal, 9 out of 10 workers are paid in cash and are excluded from any health insurance. That’s according to a new survey conducted by the Senegalese government with the support of the Better Than Cash Alliance (United Nations),…

The Italian Navy is the latest force to join Ghana's anti piracy efforts in the Gulf of Guinea. Crew from the Carlo Bergamini-class frigate Luigi Rizzo recently berthed at Tema Port to provide training to 187 soldiers to help bolster…

Nigerien President Mohammed Bazoum arrived in Nigeria Monday on a two-day official state visit. Bazoum was received by his Nigerian counterpart President Muhammadu Buhari, at the forecourt of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Governors of North western states of Kebbi and…

Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno has died on the battlefield after three decades in power, the army announced on state television on Tuesday.                  Deby, 68, “has just breathed his last defending the…