The French army took over Côte d’Ivoire’s main airport on Sunday as the battle for Abidjan dragged into a fourth day.

Guinea is entering a delicate transition due to end within six months, with the first democratic presidential elections since 1958.

Kidnapping has become a lucrative business for al-Qaeda’s north African branch, experts said on Tuesday.

Africa will demand billions of dollars in compensation from polluting nations at a UN climate summit for the harm caused by global warming.

Per capita income in Africa will fall in 2009 for the first time in 15 years, the head of the African Development Bank warned on Tuesday.

Senegal will mark on Monday the 100th anniversary of the birth of "poet-president" Leopold Sedar Senghor, whose political and literary legacy will be honoured in events across…