New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of followers from the Layene ...

Rwandan-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week ...

Khaby Lame, the Senegal-born world’s most popular TikTok personality who never says a word in videos watched by millions of ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended ...

Khaby Lame, the world’s most-followed TikTok personality, has been appointed as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, a role that ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped.

Many Africans had known that Trump’s “America First” outlook meant their continent was likely to be last among his priorities ...

As the fighting raged on with the M23 rebels Saturday, the Congolese army recaptured the villages of Sanzi, Muganzo and Mukwidja in South Kivu's Kalehe territory, which had fallen to the rebels ...

Authorities say at least 773 people were killed in the eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma city and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels ...

The seven hopefuls vying to succeed outgoing International Committee President (IOC) Thomas Bach presented their key pitches to over 100 exclusive ...

Rwanda-backed rebels were quickly expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma, the region’s major city, the U.N. said Friday, also expressing concerns ...