The junta under Lt Col Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has run out of ideas as Islamist insurgents step up attacks against towns and villages, as well as mines and other economic target...

As geopolitical tensions rise, the tally of Africa summits is mounting – with grand conferences with the continent's leaders being organised this year by the European Union, ...

The confirmation by the United States Senate that Hewlett Packard chief executive Margaret Whitman will take over as Washington's Ambassador to Kenya, as the US Commerce department...

Prompted by rights activists, business interests and opposition politicians in Tunisia, the United States's Congress is linking official aid budgets to a reversing of President Ka&...

A new front has opened in the long-running battle for compensation for the non-American victims of the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. A group o...

Morocco is exerting an ever-tighter grip on the diplomacy over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, after Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid became the latest to endorse its...