Category: Africa

Source: BBC Government ministers in Senegal have been banned from all non-essential foreign travel following the rise in oil prices resulting from the conflict in

Source: BBC Democracy “kills” and the people of Burkina Faso must “forget” it, the country’s military ruler has said in an interview aired on state

Story: News Desk  The ECOWAS Regional Animal Health Centre (RAHC) has warned that about 157 million goats and 110 million sheep across West Africa, including

Source: BBC  Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libya’s former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, has reportedly been shot dead. The death of the 53-year-old, who was

Source: BBC  Logistical problems have delayed voting in Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary elections in many parts of the country amid an internet shutdown. The BBC

Source: BBC Sudan’s military-led government has returned to the country’s capital after nearly three years of operating from its wartime base in the eastern city

Source: BBC  A plot to kill Burkina Faso’s military leader, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, has been thwarted, the West African nation has announced. The sophisticated plan

Source: BBC At least five people have been killed in a bomb explosion in a packed mosque in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, a police spokesman

Source: BBC  A daughter of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been sworn into parliament, less than a fortnight after her half-sister was forced

Source: BBC  Soldiers in the West African nation of Benin have announced on national TV that they have ousted President Patrice Talon and seized power.