Niger Delta insurgents say they’re ready to take up arms again if President Goodluck Jonathan doesn’t win Saturday’s elections.
Sierra Leone’s markets have crumbled under the widespread panic that has affected most of Africa.
Nobel prizewinner hits out at ‘Boko Haramism’ of Nigerian culture and the banalisation of graft.
Fifteen years after his death, the man who was a thorn in the side of officials in Nigeria has been honoured by the authorities with whom he tangled.
In Nigeria, Last Flight to Abuja has become the first home-grown production to outsell Hollywood films this year.
It is not the first dance craze to ripple through West Africa, but the azonto style even has the Ghana soccer stars showing off their moves.
Nigeria’s middle class is flocking to the UK to spend its cash on everything from meat to undies and is the UK’s fourth biggest foreign spender.
St Theresa’s Cathedral Church in Enugu state says the tall, colourful geles worn by women congregants in its parish are a potential security risk.
For weary Nigerians, the damning parliamentary probe into Africa’s largest oil sector has offered a glimmer of progress against entrenched corruption.
The attacks by Islamist hardliners on tombs and mosques is ratcheting up the pressure in the south of Mali. Monica Mark reports.
Lying in Sierra Leone’s mineral-rich eastern belt, the Koidu Holdings diamond mine was once at the heart of the country’s decade-long civil war.
Charles Taylor’s 50-year sentence is but the first victory at the ICC for Africa’s human rights campaigners. Stern tests of global justice remain.
Hand-me-downs account for the majority of outfits in Sierra Leone where seven out of 10 people live on less than $2 a day.
Arise Africa Fashion Week has been so successful in Lagos that organisers are planning to make it a major fixture on the global fashion calendar.
Jihadists blame country’s woes on secular state and say they have al-Qaeda’s support in their fight.
Kabir Sokoto, the man accused of the attack on a Nigerian church that killed 37 people on Christmas Day, has escaped from police custody.
Youssou N’Dour is putting his music career on hold so he can enter politics ahead of the presidential elections in his native Senegal next year.
Not so long ago thousands of Angolans were fleeing for Portugal. Now the tables have turned.
Friend of Jermaine Jackson, mystic who ‘cures’ Aids and autocratic leader of winter sun destination, Yahya Jammeh expected to win again.
The US army provided counter-insurgency training to Nigerian troops battling a rise in attacks by Islamist militants, the Nigerian military reveals.
