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Mali's ousted interim leaders are free after they were detained by the army and resigned, a military representative said, as another questioned the feasibility...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Mali’s rainy capital Bamako on Tuesday renewing calls for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to step down...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday called criticism of human rights abuses by his government “divisive falsehoods” and said his administration was under renewed...

For most of his life, Felix Tshisekedi lived in the shadow of his father Etienne, a firebrand veteran opposition leader in and out of...

The top official of the Somali parliament administration filed a motion with the speaker of parliament to impeach the country's president, Mohamed Abdullahi. "We...

The Ethiopian parliament approved senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country's first female president, proceedings on state television showed, cementing another shift...

Senegal's jailed opposition leader and former mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, plans to run for president in February 2019, he said in...

George Weah, a former international soccer star who won the presidency of Liberia last month, promised a crackdown on endemic corruption as...

Togo's opposition chief has called for the immediate resignation of President Faure Gnassingbe, current head of a half century-old political dynasty, rejecting...

Incumbent leader Paul Kagame swept to a landslide victory in Rwanda's presidential election, securing a third term in office and extending his...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari delivered an audio message to mark the Islamic Eid al-Fitr holiday, senior presidency sources said, his first public...

Nigeria's acting president is visiting the north-eastern city of Maiduguri after an attack by Boko Haram jihadists which killed 14 people and...

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos returned from Spain, state-owned news Agency Angop said, following confirmation the 74-year-old was in the European...

Somalia's president replaced his security chiefs and called on al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents to surrender within 60 days in return for...

The president of Nigeria's upper house of parliament is to be investigated by lawmakers over allegations he attempted to evade payment of...

Somalia's new president was inaugurated on Wednesday, promising his people the era of al Shabaab and other Islamist militant groups was over. Mohamed...

Thousands of Somalis fired guns in the air, cheered atop military vehicles and slaughtered camels to celebrate the election of anti-corruption campaigner...

Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a U.S.-educated former prime minister, was sworn in as Somalia's new president on Wednesday after lawmakers gave him an...

Somali lawmakers gathered behind blast walls at the capital's airport on Wednesday to elect their president, after months of delays and following...

Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos confirmed on Friday he will not run in this year's presidential election, calling an end to...

Gambia's President Adama Barrow, inaugurated in neighbouring Senegal as mediators engineered an exit deal for longstanding ruler Yahya Jammeh, is to return...

Opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana's national election, becoming president elect at the third attempt and cementing the country's reputation as a...

Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who once vowed to rule the tiny West African nation for "a billion years", said he accepted his...

Danny Faure was sworn in as the new president of Seychelles on Sunday, after thousands marched through the capital of the East...

The wife of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says she may not back her husband at the next election unless he shakes up...

Gabon President Ali Bongo was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday and called for unity at a low-key ceremony following...

Zambia will press on with swearing in its president, Edgar Lungu, for another five-year-term next week, after the opposition missed a deadline...

Demonstrators in Gabon clashed with police and set part of the parliament building on fire on Wednesday amid anger among opposition supporters...

Zambian President Edgar Lungu said on Tuesday his inauguration would be delayed until a court rules on a challenge from his main...

Uganda's Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition seeking nullification of President Yoweri Museveni's disputed re-election last month, clearing the way for...

Tunisia's new president asked for a six-month political truce and a moratorium on strikes and protests, warning that otherwise the country would...

The government of Sierra Leone is investigating allegations that individuals in Vice-President Samuel Sam Sumana's office accepted kickbacks offered to them by...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), a spokesman said giving no reason. The...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is poised to win a fourth term in elections this week in the West African country, popular with...

Security fears kept Nigeria's president from attending his party's gubernatorial primary in his home state that has been tainted by an escalating...

Italy's president stepped in to try to calm markets after the country's borrowing costs raced to catastrophic levels, saying urgent action would...

Ahmed Shafiq, a former Egyptian air force commander and close associate of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, said on Thursday he planned to...

Posters calling for the head of Egypt's military council to run for president appeared around central Cairo alarming activists who said associates...

Preliminary results for Cameroon's presidential election showed a widely expected landslide victory for incumbent Paul Biya, a member of the national vote...

Tunisia will face catastrophic consequences if it tries to exclude from power everyone associated with the president who was toppled in a...

Sierra Leone's police have imposed an indefinite ban on political rallies following a spate of violence in the West African nation which...

Guinea-Bissau's President Malam Bacai Sanha has left hospital in Senegal after a week of health checks, said a member of his delegation. "The...

Campaigning for Zambia's September presidential election is in full swing with the incumbent launching an expensive building project at a time when...

The feared security chief of ousted President Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali begged Tunisians for forgiveness during a court appearance Ali al-Seriati was considered...

London's marine insurance market has added Benin to a list of areas deemed high risk due to an escalation of pirate attacks...