Ethiopian opposition parties go into elections on June 1, facing threats, insurgencies, near-total state control of the media ...

Nigeria is one of the few nations among the roughly 190 countries in the world that fought a civil war — an internal armed conflict — in order to preserve its territorial unity and remain one ...

In 2017, five men digging in an open pit found the third largest diamond ever unearthed in west Africa. It was dubbed the ...

A new creek looked almost empty at first, with only horseshoes, axe heads, and scraps coming out of the ground. Then he finds ...

The daughter and niece of Samuel K. Doe and Charles Taylor, respectively, traded accusations on social media this week over competing accounts of their fathers' roles in Liberia's civil war, with ...

The United States and Iran could strike a deal to end the Middle East war as early as Sunday, Washington’s top diplomat said, while Tehran insisted the agreement would do nothing to limit its nuclear ...

Nine migrants deported from the United States have landed in Sierra Leone, according to the country's ministry of information.

Today I am saddened, a sadness one can only feel after losing a friend of 30 years. Gary Schulze died yesterday in his native ...

According to a report earlier this month by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Ms Fatima Jabbe-Bio has ...

The private world of one of Africa's most powerful political women is revealed in a BBC World Service exclusive.

A plane transporting nine West Africans deported by the Trump administration arrived in Sierra Leone on Wednesday, part of Washington's latest deal ​with an African country aimed at accelerating ...

They come in blister packs of 10 like any normal painkiller and you can buy them easily in roadside kiosks and street pharmacies across west Africa.