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

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

Several African countries maintain attack helicopter fleets, which are integral to their military capabilities. These ...

An analysis of the gut microbiome in women from four African countries provides crucial data for this under-represented ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

Rwanda-backed rebels say they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of ...

Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. But persistent problems, including poverty, the effects of climate change, and weak governance, are fuelling widespread social ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a mass panic among its 2 million people and Congo’s ...

Residents in eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, woke up on Monday morning uncertain about who is in control of the city, which Rwanda-backed rebels claimed to have captured ...

An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.