The World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and African Development Bank (AfDB) have endorsed Nigeria’s new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of approximately 509.9 billion U.S. dollars released on Sunday and placing the West African country as the...

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Saturday appointed Moussa Mara as the country’s prime minister to replace Oumar Tatam Ly who resigned from the position, minister for the Presidency Tidiani Djime Diallo said.

Morocco is “a stabilization force” in the region, said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday in Rabat, stressing that Morocco and the USA are standing side by side to reinforce regional security.

Aid agencies have temporarily suspended their operations in northern Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex following three explosions at the airstrip on Thursday night.

US Secretary of state, John Kerry, said this  Friday that Washington “follows with interest” Morocco’s openness onto Africa  “under the impulse of the King Mohammed VI”.

After months of delays and mounting anticipation, Nigeria’s economy has been officially “rebased”. It is now worth $510bn (2013 figures) – an 89% rise, far in excess of analysts’ predictions. Nigeria is now Africa’s largest economy, pushing...

Clashes between Amazigh and Arab residents of Al-Shoba and Haj-Masood neighbourhoods in the Algerian province of Ghardaia renewed on Sunday, tens of deaths and injuries were reported.

One was killed and other three were injured in two blasts occurred on Wednesday outside Cairo University, one of the most prominent and oldest universities in Egypt, State Nile-TV said.

Several west African countries geared up on Friday to tackle killer hemorraghic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives in Guinea and is suspected of having emerged in Mali, after Liberia and Sierra Leone.

King Mohammed VI received on Friday at the Royal palace of Casablanca visiting US secretary of state, John Kerry, says a release of the Royal office.