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For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. Aid agencies are warning that if action is not taken now, the region known as the Sahel could slip into crisis.
Congo's opposition leader has declared himself winner of the presidential vote, despite placing second in official election results.
A top church leader in Congo on Monday cast doubt on the legitimacy of elections that gave victory to President Joseph Kabila, as the incumbent held a press conference to deny there was voting fraud in this vast, mineral-rich and unstable Central African nation.
The president of Guinea-Bissau has been hospitalized for past week in Paris, a spokesman confirmed Saturday, fueling fears of a power vacuum in the small coup-prone African nation known to be a transit point for drug smugglers.
Business owners moved their stock into secure locations on Sunday and families waited to board boats to leave this troubled nation by crossing the mighty river separating it from its neighbor, as early results gave the country's 40-year-old president a nearly insurmountable lead in the recent election.
Moammar Gadhafi's intelligence chief, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, has slipped into the desert nation of Niger and is hiding in the expanse of dunes at the Niger-Algeria border, a Niger presidential adviser said late Wednesday.
The African heads of state who converged on the capital of Equatorial Guinea this summer are used to life's finer things — yet even they were impressed.
Senegal's president, who is in New York for the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly, has canceled a visit to a university in Pennsylvania, claiming he had to return home because of unrest in his country, the university said Wednesday.
The inauguration of Ivory Coast's new president played out before a crowd of tens of thousands. Women wore dresses printed with his portrait. World leaders flew in for the day in a show of international support.
The body representing nations in Africa called on its members to disregard the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Moammar Gadhafi, an official confirmed Saturday, in a move that seriously weakens the tribunal's ability to bring the embattled Libyan leader to justice.
On a road that curves around a swath of vegetation at the far north of this commercial capital, cars leave territory controlled by strongman Laurent Gbagbo at a checkpoint consisting of a pile of logs. Beyond it is the first barricade manned by gunmen loyal to the country's internationally recognized president Alassane Ouattara.
A morgue in Ivory Coast no longer has place for the dead. So the more than 50 bodies that were delivered in the past five days are being stacked on the floor.
A man who set himself on fire in front of the presidential palace in Senegal on Friday died from his wounds hours later in the latest self-immolation on the African continent.
The entrance to the morgue is like a mouth through which comes an awful smell. It hits you as far back as the parking lot and makes your eyes water. From a dozen yards away, it's strong enough to make you throw up.
The newly elected president of this troubled republic in Africa's tropics cannot leave his hotel. And neither can the linens on which he sleeps — except by helicopter.
Mobs and security forces allied to Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo attacked at least six U.N. vehicles Thursday, setting some ablaze and injuring two people in the latest round of violence sparked by this West African nation's disputed election.
The man considered to be the legitimate president of Ivory Coast following the recent election said Wednesday that a military operation to oust the incumbent who is refusing to leave office would not cause a war, as African leaders warned that force should only be a last resort.
From a hotel room just big enough to hold a bed and a desk, the man considered the legitimate president of Ivory Coast is trying to govern a troubled nation whose sitting president refuses to leave.
A puddle of blood runs down a sloping road here where children once raced "cars," towing boxes of sardines on strings. It was so large that neighbors tried to cover it with sand.
It is expected to be the country's first-ever democratic election. But as Guineans head to the polls to freely choose a leader after half a century of dictatorship, no one is celebrating.
More than 160 Haitian students who left their earthquake-shattered country to take up Senegal's offer of free housing and scholarships were embraced by its president amid questions of how the poor African country can devote resources to foreigners.
Ibrahima Diallo spends his days in Bed No. 7 of the municipal hospital here, waiting for the bones in his face to glue themselves back together. His teeth are tied shut, so it is hard for him to talk — but even if he could, he'd have little to say to the patient in Bed No. 8.
Election officials on Thursday confirmed that a critical presidential runoff in Guinea has been postponed by at least two weeks as the warehouse storing voting materials for the upcoming ballot went up in flames, developments that may stoke ethnic divisions at the heart of the vote.
You would be forgiven for thinking that the launch of this country's newest TV station was an event backed by Senegal's government.
Abdoulaye Ba, 10, looked right, then left, before timidly approaching the taxi and holding out his hand.
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