Edward McAllister

Defiant Junta Rejects Pressure to Let Conde Leave Guinea  U.S. News & World Report

After Killing Sahel Islamic State Leader, France to Hunt Other Chiefs  U.S. News & World Report

Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has received his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the government said on Monday, after a six-month wait caused by his unwillingness to take the AstraZeneca shot. Democratic Republic of Congo has officially reported 56,000 cases and 1,066 deaths from the…

By David Lewis, Edward McAllister and Saliou Samb DAKAR (Reuters) - In 2016, Mamady Doumbouya, a commander in the Guinean army, asked his superiors if he could have ammunition to train his troops in marksmanship. He never received it, he said, beca...

Guinean government officials are barred from travel until further notice, and must hand over their official vehicles to the military, special forces commander Mamady Doumbouya, who ousted President Alpha Conde on Sunday, told a government gathering on Monday.

KINSHASA (Reuters) -A third wave of COVID-19 infections in Africa has stabilised and the continent’s slow vaccination drive has picked up pace, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. S…

The death toll from an attack on civilians and the military in northern Burkina Faso has risen to 80 people, the government said in a statement on Thursday.

Fifteen soldiers were killed and a number of others wounded in an ambush on a military convoy in central Mali on Thursday, the armed forces said.

Unidentified armed men have killed 37 civilians, including 14 children, in an attack on a village in southwest Niger, according to internal security service memos and a local official.

The project aims to create hundreds of circular gardens that organisers hope will boost food security, reduce regional desertification and engage thousands of community workers

Ghana hopes to receive over 18 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines before October as it struggles to contain a third wave of infections, President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a speech on Sunday.

Man Accused of Attempted Assassination of Mali President Dies in Custody  U.S. News & World Report

Coastal Erosion Threatens Senegal's Rock Climbing Clique  U.S. News & World Report

Eleven African heads of state called on Thursday for $100 billion in hardship funding to help dig their economies out of the hole caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chad’s oil revenues fell 68% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021 because of a corporate tax waiver aimed at preserving jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic, a government report said on Tuesday. Chad’s government in April 2020 announced a 50% cut in taxes on businesses for six months to reduce pan…

Burkina Faso’s president Roch Kabore has taken over the role of defence minister in a cabinet reshuffle aimed at stopping a wave of jihadist attacks that has plagued the West Africa country in recent years, according to a presidential decree on Wednesday.

On a small island where the Senegal River meets the sea, hundreds of mask-wearing jazz enthusiasts listened to French-Senegalese vocalist Awa Ly sing the blues for uncertain times.

A suicide bomber in a car attacked a French reconnaissance mission in central Mali on Monday, wounding six of the soldiers and four residents, the French army said.

Senegal could begin producing COVID-19 vaccines next year under an agreement with Belgian biotech group Univercells aimed at boosting Africa’s drug-manufacturing ambitions, a source involved in funding the project told Reuters.

BURKINA-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 3):UPDATE 3-At least 132 civilians killed in Burkina Faso’s worst attack in years