Migrants crossing the English Channel arrived at the port in Dover, southeast England, on Monday. British broadcaster Sky News aired footage of the migrants, marking the first arrivals since the new government took office on Friday. On Saturday, British Prime Minister ... Read More

West Africa's fractured regional bloc on Sunday urged Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to engage with the three military-led member states to try to reunite the region whose stability has been threatened since they decided to leave the group in ... Read More

The German army will end operations at its air base in Niger by August 31 following the breakdown of talks with the Sahel country's ruling junta, Germany's defense ministry said Saturday. All Bundeswehr soldiers stationed at the base will be withdrawn ... Read More

U.S. troops have completed a withdrawal from their base in Niger's capital of Niamey and will fully depart from Agadez in the north before a Sept. 15 deadline set by the country's military rulers, both countries said Sunday. Niger's military leaders ... Read More

Authorities in the central African nation say technical issues made it impossible for the country to keep its commitments by June 30. In an undated statement, the ministry of public accounts said arrears were paid back to the World Bank. This comes ... Read More

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday he was expecting about $10.5 billion in financial aid in the coming years once the country wraps up negotiations with international lending institutions. Africa's second most populous nation, battered in ... Read More

Tunisia is set to conduct a presidential election on October 6, as confirmed by President Kais Saied's office on Tuesday. It remains uncertain whether Saied will run for a new five-year term following his initial election in 2019. Saied, an expert ... Read More

The Cairo meeting attended by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and EU commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen culminated in the signing of deals worth billions of dollars. The conference comes on the back of a $7.9 billion funding package agreed in ... Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa named a new Cabinet on sunday evening after his African National Congress, the former main opposition party, and nine other parties agreed on the makeup of a coalition government of South Africa's seventh administration following ... Read More

Defense chiefs of West Africa on Thursday, June 27 proposed a plan to deploy a 5,000-strong “standby force” to fight the region’s worsening security crises, a measure that analysts say might not work due to challenges of funding and division ... Read More