West Africa News

The aftermath of Nigeria's recent presidential elections continues to be a source of tension in the country, with both the...

Nigeria's former deputy senate president, his wife and daughter went on trial in a London court on Monday for allegedly...

Security forces are searching for about 50 women kidnapped by suspected jihadists in insurgency-hit northern Burkina Faso, a regional governor...

A prominent dissident in Equatorial Guinea has died in prison after being taken from South Sudan in a suspected kidnapping...

Twenty-two people died on Monday when a bus and a truck collided in northern Senegal, firefighters said, a week after...

It began as a form of music chanted at wakes to comfort mourners now it is part of Cameroon's cultural...

Benin's pro-government parties won a majority of seats in parliament, the country's constitutional court said Thursday, in a vote marking...

Gunmen attacked a train station in southern Nigeria, kidnapping about 30 people and wounding others, before police managed to rescue...

A court in Mali has sentenced 46 Ivorian troops whose detention in Mali sparked a diplomatic row between the two...

The trial in Mali of 46 Ivorian troops whose detention has sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries wrapped...

A court in Ivory Coast on Wednesday handed down life terms to four Malian men convicted of abetting a jihadist...

Ten passengers riding a bus died when their vehicle struck a mine in eastern Burkina Faso, the regional governor said...

Burkina Faso has ordered the UN's coordinator in the country to leave by the end of the day, declaring her...

Shell said Friday it will pay 15 million euros to Nigerian farmers to compensate them for damage from pipeline leaks....

An Ivory Coast prosecutor Wednesday urged life in jail for four suspects over one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks...

A Senegalese court Tuesday ordered prominent journalist and government critic Pape Ale Niang to be put back in jail, his...

Germany handed back more than 20 looted artefacts to Nigeria on Tuesday, saying it was to "right a wrong" more than...

Senegal's opposition leader was questioned Tuesday in a Dakar court hearing over rape accusations, lawyers told local media, in a...

Horns blaring from the crowd, Nigerian candidate Peter Obi makes his pitch, repeating a mantra that he offers youth a...

Beninese hairdresser Edwige Govi makes a point these days of using electric motorbike taxis to get around Cotonou, saying she...

Nearly 150,000 children displaced by violence in jihadist-torn Mali have no birth certificates and could be denied education as a...