Niger's interior ministry says that extremist gunmen have attacked a military camp near the West African country's border with Burkina Faso, killing at least 12 soldiers

Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has secured his re-election with a comfortable margin over his opposition in a vote that set the bar for a new chapter in the small West African nation’s democracy

U.S. health officials say that while the omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading in the country, early indications suggest it may be less dangerous than delta, which continues to drive a surge of hospitalizations

Tunisia has recorded its first case of the omicron variant

Senegal has recorded its first cases of the coronavirus omicron variant

Britain’s government has tightened travel restrictions amid concerns about the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant

Election officials in the West African nation of Gambia have started counting marble votes after polls closed for the first presidential election in decades that does not include former dictator Yahya Jammeh as a candidate

Police say at least 21 people died after a bus carrying choir members to a wedding plunged into a river in Kenya on Saturday

A local official in central Mali says gunmen attacked a truck carrying civilians in central Mali, killing at least 31 people