Gabon holds a presidential election on Saturday, the first since a 2023 coup ended the Bongo family's 56-year dynasty and ...

The International Organization of La Francophonie was established on March 20, 1970, in Niamey, Niger, under the name "Agency for Cultural and Technical ...

Burkina Faso junta pardons 21 soldiers jailed for 2015 failed coup; move aims to boost army's anti-terror fight amid ongoing ...

Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura believes powerful individuals are using social media to engineer coups in Africa.

Uganda's Museveni Visits South Sudan For Mediation TalksUgandan President Yoweri Museveni is the latest high-ranking African official to visit Juba, South Sudan's capital, as tension rises in the ...

Niger’s military junta has freed dozens of former government officials and military officers detained after a coup in 2023 as part of what military authorities have described as efforts to reform the ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military junta has set Sept. 21 as the date for a long-promised constitutional referendum ...

Gabon's Brice Oligui Nguema will try to ride the advantages of incumbency and a popular crackdown on corruption to make the ...

The three Americans had their sentences reduced to life imprisonment ahead of an expected visit from a Trump official.

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic ...

A militant leader from Mali championed a rock band and helped write a hit song before leading an Islamist army that killed ...