Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has nominated Johnson Asiamah as the West African country's next central bank governor pending approval by the Council of State, the presidency said on Friday.

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

One lesson I have learned is that no one can go ahead of the Lord’s timing," said a Latter-day Saint pioneer in Tanzania ...

N’DJAMENA, Chad — France handed over its last military base in Chad to local authorities on Thursday, two months after the former French colony in central Africa broke off its defense cooperation ...

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.

Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

Vladimir Putin grabbed Donbas, an eastern region of Ukraine, and pretended he had not. As a figleaf he used local separatist ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.