Favourable weather in Ivory Coast’s main cocoa regions bode well for the April-September mid-crop harvest.

Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh accused ECOWAS of declaring war, after it said it was putting forces on alert in case...

A group of former Nigerian militants said on Sunday it had lost confidence in the president's efforts to end attacks...

Nigeria's government will seek a lasting peace settlement with militants in the oil-producing southern Niger Delta region in 2017, President...

Egypt began on Saturday handing over to their families the bodies of those who died when EgyptAir flight MS804 crashed...

Congolese President Joseph Kabila will step down after elections to be held by the end of 2017 under a last-minute...

Talks to ease Congo President Joseph Kabila out of power next year and quell protests over him overstaying his mandate...

Flooding this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo port city of Boma killed at least 50 people and left...

Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattahal-Sisi will pick a chairman and members of a new media council under a law passed on Monday,...

A suicide bomber attacked a cattle market on Monday in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit in the...

Egypt confirmed on Sunday that it had arrested an Al Jazeera news producer, accusing him of "provoking sedition" on behalf...

A suicide bomber in northern Cameroon killed a young student and a woman in an attack on a market full...

Nigeria's army has captured a key Boko Haram camp, the Islamist militant group's last enclave in the vast Sambisa forest...

A group of 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram militants in October after two-and-a-half years in captivity in northeastern...

Congolese politicians have agreed in principle to a deal under which President Joseph Kabila leaves office by the end of...

An airliner on an internal flight in Libya was hijacked by a man claiming to have a hand grenade on...

An Afriqiyah Airways plane that was hijacked on Friday during an internal Libyan flight was diverted towards Malta

West Africa's regional bloc has put standby forces "on alert" in case Gambian president Yahya Jammeh does not step down.

Following are the main events in the South African government's official programme for the mourning and state funeral of Nelson...