African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Somalia rape women seeking medicine on their bases and routinely pay teenage girls for sex,...
Ghana will cap its 2014 Eurobond at $1 billion rather than the $1.5 billion initially approved by parliament in order...
Mining companies are beefing up protection against the spreading Ebola virus in West Africa while maintaining investment in new projects...
The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, as the death...
At least $1 trillion is being taken out of poor countries every year through shady deals for natural resources, the...
The central bank of the eight-nation West African franc zone (BCEAO) kept its prime lending rate unchanged at 2.50 percent...
Tens of millions of Africans rely on bushmeat and wild fish for up to 80 percent of their protein, and...
The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has raised 627 million Kenyan shillings ($7.1 million) for expansion in an oversubscribed initial public...
As the dreaded Ebola virus disease ravages across countries within the West African sub-region, country representative of the World Health...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified six countries at risk for spread of the Ebola virus disease, adding that...
Libya’s government said it has lost control of most ministries and state institutions located in Tripoli after rival armed groups...
Niger’s parliament speaker and leading opposition figure Hama Amadou, who is wanted for questioning in his home country on suspicion...
Health workers have gone on strike at a major state-run Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, over pay and poor...
France’s state health institute, Inserm, is in talks with Guinea authorities on the first clinical trials of experimental Ebola therapies...
France’s state health institute, Inserm, is in talks with Guinea authorities on the first clinical trials of experimental Ebola therapies...