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

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

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

French military ... in West Africa,” addedEkissi. Taking advantage of the discontent that had been brewing in the Muslim north, which had for decades felt marginalized by the Christian south ...

Côte d’Ivoire announced that French troops would be withdrawing from the country and the military base of Port-Bouët would be handed over to Côte d’Ivoire’s army. The announcement is part of a seismic ...

A conflict that has raged for decades reached a flashpoint this week when rebels backed by Rwanda marched on a key Congolese ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...

With Morocco and Algeria ballooning their military budgets in anticipation of an all-out war, one area remains as “Africa’s last ... un-labelled on world maps. Moreover, GDP, global population ...