Senegal has its acclaimed Saint-Louis Jazz Festival and Dak’Art Biennale, Burkina Faso’s mammoth film festival, FESPACO, while Benin’s return to ancestral art and Cote d’Ivoire’s resurgent nightlife ...

How community solutions are helping amputees and drug users in the West African nation ...

Sierra Leone is about to jam to the rhythms of reggae, as some of the Caribbean’s biggest stars descend on Freetown for the ...

It is a great honor for me to speak on how we can harness the African Diaspora for African development. The Diaspora is pivotal to the sustainability of the ongoing renaissance of Africa, and we thank ...

CONAKRY, Guinea – Guinea said Tuesday that it had been told by Africa's top football body to move an important qualifier against Togo next month to another country because of the Ebola outbreak.

Sierra Leone has nixed plans to build a controversial, $318 million airport outside the capital of Freetown with a Chinese company and funded by Chinese loans. The mega project, which was due to be ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade's (2SFAB) Maneuver Advisor Team 2221 (MAT 2221) is nearing completion of their deployment to Africa. This landmark mission brought ...

Dutch Justice Minister Foort van Oosten is preparing to visit West Africa to urge Sierra Leone and nearby countries to assist in the extradition of Jos Leijdekkers. The Netherlands has so far received ...

In this week's Africa Update, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Farai Chideya discuss the Sudanese government's possible acceptance of a United Nations intervention in Darfur; a possible peace deal in Sierra ...

(Freetown) - Women giving birth in public healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone face demeaning, dangerous, and potentially deadly neglect, abandonment, and abuse by healthcare providers if they cannot ...