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DAKAR (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $86.9 million extended fund facility for Mauritania, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

Cameroons government on Monday said it had not asked any country to mediate its conflict with Anglophone separatists, apparently denying a statement from Canada that it had been assigned to work...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Unidentified assailants in eastern Mali have abducted a doctor working for the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.N. agency said in a statement on Tuesday.

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Hundreds demonstrated against France in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on Friday, the latest expression of growing anti-French sentiment in the insurgent-hit West African country.

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko will face trial on charges of rape and making death threats to a beauty salon employee in...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Piercing thorns and stones underfoot did not stop the young woman as she charged through thickets, baby strapp...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko will face trial on charges of rape and making death threats to a beauty salon employee in...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Nineteen people were killed and 24 wounded in a road accident in Senegal early on Monday, President Macky Sall said, the second majo...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The death toll from a church bombing in east Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday has risen to 14, an...

OUAGADOUGOU -Islamist militants kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Fasos northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on Jan. 12 and 13, the government said on...