Four Confess to Planning Foiled Coup, Niger Says
Mahamadou Karidio, Niger Defense Minister. NIAMEY, NIGER—Four people arrested for ties to an attempted coup in Niger in December have...
Candidates Again Question Results in CAR Elections
Election workers count votes after polls closed during the presidential and legislative elections in Bangui's city center, Central...
Burkina Faso President Breaks With Past in Naming Cabinet
Roch Marc Kabore, winner of Burkina Faso's presidential election, celebrates as supporters gather outside his campaign headquarters in...
Ethiopia Scraps Plan for Capital Area that Sparked Protests
Ethiopian migrants, all members of the Oromo community of Ethiopia living in Malta, protest in Valletta against the Ethiopian regime's...
Cameroon Cracks Down on Armed Youths After Police Station Attacks
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON—Cameroon has arrested hundreds of people who allegedly attacked police stations in the capital Yaounde to protest human...
Opposition Sees Ominous Ethnic Undercurrent in Burundi Violence
An opposition demonstrator holds a sign in French reading "No to a third term" next to a barricade fire set by protesters in the Ngagara...
Liberia's Ebola Workers Seek Hazard Benefits
Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in an area where a 17-year old boy...
Official: DRC Taking Rape Allegations Seriously
Police officers from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in an...
Mozambique Refugees Fleeing to Malawi
New arrivals awaiting registration at camp, Jan. 7, 2016. (Lameck Masina/VOA). MWANZA, MALAWI—Malawi continues receiving hundreds of...
On Benin's Voodoo Holiday, Followers Pray, Sacrifice for Peace
COTONOU, BENIN—The national voodoo holiday in the West African country of Benin had a distinctively political accent this year as...
