Mali’s junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them.

An Eritrean national described as the “world’s most wanted″ human trafficker has been arrested in Sudan after an international search led by the United Arab Emirates, Interpol has announced.

Forty-six Ivorian troops whose detention by Mali has triggered a bitter diplomatic row reportedly appeared for trial at a court in Bamako. The news follows a “friendly working visit” by Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe, who is mediating the ongoing…

The CDC, Africa’s top public health body, says that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda is coming under control with no new confirmed case reported in the country for the last 39 days. But it needs to pass 42 days to be considered Ebola-free.

The last surviving African soldiers who fought for colonial-era France will be able to live out their final days in their home countries following the French government’s U-turn on their pension rights. The decision coincides with the cinema release o…

The government in Chad said Thursday that it had foiled an “attempted destabilisation” plot by army officers and a prominent human rights activist.

Senegalese veterans who fought for France in the world wars and other conflicts have been granted the right to claim a French pension in their country of origin, overturning a previous rule stating they had to spend at least six months a year in Franc…