[The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Mali’s government have agreed to the deployment of a standby force to the West African country, where Islamist militants control the north. “Thankfully, there is now a consensus around the mandate of the…

[‘You want to annoy the soldiers and they topple me!’President Museveni stormed out of a heated caucus with NRM lawmakers on Monday after they failed to buy into his rigid stance on the Defence ministry’s budget. Museveni had told the lawmakers that…

[West Africa’s regional body is gearing up for a tough fight to help Mali’s government forces reclaim the north of the country from Islamist militants, telling the U.N. Security Council on Monday it needs major combat assets, including fighter jets.Mali descended into…

[A wave of deadly night-time raids and revenge attacks involving two ethnic groups in Kenya has seen more than 100 people brutally killed in recent weeks.Men, women and children have been murdered, variously by bullets, machetes and spears, while some were burned…

[Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and the United States sent warships toward Libya, where the U.S. ambassador was killed in related violence this week.In Libya, authorities…

[MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hassan Sheik Mohamud, a moderate political activist and academic, took on one of the world’s most challenging political posts on Monday after members of Somalia’s newly created Parliament elected him the country’s next president.Mr. Mohamud’s election, held in a…

  [Four African countries have been tasked by regional governments in the Great Lakes region to form a force of 4,000 troops to fight the M23 rebel group in DR Congo. Kenya, Tanzania, Angola and DR Congo will deploy the force under…

[The election victory was no landslide but the lack of foreign criticism gives Dos Santos enough space to organise a succession on his own terms.The Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola won the general elections with 72% of the vote after spending…

 [Prosecutors provisionally dropped murder charges against the 270 jailed miners who had been accused under an obscure legal doctrine of killing 34 of their own colleagues when the police opened fire on them while engaged in a wildcat strike. The police fired…

[Kenyan anti-riot police fired teargas at stone-throwing youths in the port city of Mombasa on Tuesday in a new outburst of violence a day after the murder of a Muslim cleric led to riots that left one person dead.Youths barricaded several streets…