A Nigerian judge has criticised a lawyer facing criminal charges after he turned up to court in Lagos with a defence team of more than 90 people.

Guinea was declared free of Ebola transmission on Tuesday after more than 2,500 people died from the virus in the West African nation

Tens of people were killed in an explosion at a gas plant in southern Nigeria, the presidency said on Friday, with one journalist putting the death toll at 100.

Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a mobile phone market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 100 others, the country’s emergency response agency said.

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara won a blowout poll victory and a second five-year term in a weekend vote intended to draw a line under years of turmoil and a 2011 civil war, the elections commission announced on Wednesday.

Nigeria will pursue charges against a megachurch owned by pastor T.B. Joshua for negligence after a building collapse in September that left 116 people dead.

A teenager blew herself up near a mosque on Monday night in an apparent suicide attack attempt in Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city, police said.

No fewer than 4 people have been confirmed dead and others were said to have sustained severe injuries at Pastor T.B. Joshua’s SCOAN in Ghana on Sunday.

No fewer than 4 people have been confirmed dead and others were said to have sustained severe injuries at Pastor T.B. Joshua’s SCOAN in Ghana on Sunday.

A DARK cloud seems to be hanging over Nigeria–trained doctors desiring to practise in the United Kingdom.

At least 60 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in a crush during new year festivities in Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan, officials say.

A multi-storey department store has collapsed in Ghana’s capital, Accra, with dozens of people believed to be trapped inside.

LAGOS — It will be a rare spectacle this Friday, November 4, when a Christian ministry devoted to the conversion of people considered as gross sinners holds its “Guys Night” in Lagos. Smoking, drinking of alcohol and dancing to immoral music — all of which are considered sin by much of Christendom — will not […]

LAGOS — It will be a rare spectacle this Friday, November 4, when a Christian ministry devoted to the conversion of people considered as gross sinners holds its “Guys Night” in Lagos. Smoking, drinking of alcohol and dancing to immoral music — all of which are considered sin by much of Christendom — will not […]

DAKAR — Ivorian government officials recently visiting displaced families in the west were met with hostile youth and wailing women — a reminder six months after election violence ended that wounds are still raw and reconciliation distant. Four government ministers were in the west to prepare a visit by President Alassane Ouattara — his first […]

ABIDJAN – An International Criminal Court investigation into Ivory Coast’s post-election conflict will focus on two to six people thought most responsible for atrocities, the prosecutor said during a visit to the country. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who was addressing a news conference late on Saturday after meeting Ivorian officials, including President Alassane Ouattara, did […]

SIRTE, Libya – Libyan transitional government forces said on Sunday they had captured the university and a conference centre in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, but were holding off an assault on the main square to let civilians escape. Taking Sirte would bring Libya’s new rulers a big step closer to establishing control of the […]

ABUJA, NIGERIA—Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan won the oil-rich country’s election Monday as riots swept across the Muslim north and left buildings ablaze and people hiding in their homes, highlighting the religious and ethnic tensions still dividing Africa’s most populous nation. The violence cut across 13 states, hundreds wounded. Heavy gunfire echoed through cities, as shouting […]

A watershed presidential election in Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, unfolded peacefully on Saturday, a first for a country with a history of rigged and violent votes in the 12 years since the end of military rule. Nigerians have never voted before in such favorable conditions, analysts and election monitors said: ballot materials appear to […]

Soldiers have shot into the air, stolen cars and looted shops in the western part of Burkina Faso’s capital as protests by military guards against unpaid housing allowances spread, witnesses said. The presidential compound in Ouagadougou was calm on Friday after gunfire erupted there overnight. President Blaise Compaoré was apparently not in the presidential compound […]

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — France on Tuesday renewed its denials of involvement in the arrest of the strongman of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, who was captured and taken into custody by his rival on Monday, ending a four-month standoff that left hundreds dead, strained international diplomacy and dragged the country back into civil war. With […]

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — France on Tuesday renewed its denials of involvement in the arrest of the strongman of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, who was captured and taken into custody by his rival on Monday, ending a four-month standoff that left hundreds dead, strained international diplomacy and dragged the country back into civil war. With […]

Ivory Coast’s disputed leader Laurent Gbagbo (65) whose refusal to step down after losing a presidential election in November last year triggered a civil war in the West African country, was captured by French forces yesterday. News that he was being held was broken by a Gbagbo aide and confirmed by France’s ambassador and forces […]

Ivory Coast’s disputed leader Laurent Gbagbo (65) whose refusal to step down after losing a presidential election in November last year triggered a civil war in the West African country, was captured by French forces yesterday. News that he was being held was broken by a Gbagbo aide and confirmed by France’s ambassador and forces […]

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The Ivory Coast strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, was captured on Monday after a week-long siege of his residence and placed under the control of his rival claimant to power, according to the French military and a senior American diplomat. Both French ground forces and troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized […]