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OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO - The death toll from the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years has risen to 132, the government...

YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Female Cameroonian activists and opposition members have appealed to the United Nations Security Council, meeting Monday, to discuss possible solutions to...

BLANTRYE, MALAWI - Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera led a rollout Friday of a push for a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with a...

ABUJA, NIGERIA - Millions of Nigerians struggled Saturday to access Twitter, a day after authorities suspended the service in response to the company's deletion...

The Media Foundation for West Africa is disturbed by the incidence of harassment of peaceful protesters by the Nigerian security forces and enjoins the authorities to bring to book the police officer who shot a teargas canister at activist Omoyele Sowo...

Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Dr. Hamad Hassan, on Friday affirmed that the medicine shortage crisis in Lebanese markets was on its way to a solution. “We will not allow this issue to tamper with our joy conquering the Coronavirus pandemic,” Has...

The breezy, cool markets are moderately crowded on Wednesday afternoon, and blue tuk-tuks whiz through the streets. Sidewalk juice and coffee shops are busy, in what appears to be a relaxed regional capital. But it is not long before we notice glimpse...

Shops remained shuttered, some government workers hadn't been paid and the town's main hospital was laid to waste. But the Tigrayan fighters still claimed victory, swaggering through the streets of Hawzen with their guns.It wouldn't last long.Hawzen, ...