Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, who served as the 6th Director-General of Unesco and the first African to head an international organisation, is being remembered for his leading role in advocating a New World ...

Document - From New York for the United Nations General Assembly, it is with deep emotion that I learn of the death of Professor Amadou Mahtar Mbow, former Director-General of UNESCO and a great ...

"Recovery, identification and transfer operations are being made extremely delicate by the advanced state of decomposition of ...

A media freedom group says local journalists in the African Sahel are facing increased security risks as extremist attacks ...

Local journalists in the Sahel region of Africa are facing increased security risks, a media freedom group said Tuesday, as ...

Having slipped undetected into Mali's capital weeks ago, the jihadis struck just before dawn prayers. It showed that jihadist ...

Senegal's military says at least 30 bodies were found on a boat drifting off the coast of Dakar along a route used by ...

Senegal's navy has recovered at least 30 bodies from a boat discovered adrift around 70 kilometres (43 miles) off the coast of the capital Dakar, the army said Monday.

At least 30 decomposing bodies have been found on a boat off the coast of Senegal, military authorities say. The navy was ...

At least 30 decomposing bodies were found in a boat drifting around 70 km (38 nautical miles) off the coast of Senegal's capital Dakar, the military said on Monday.

The two former ruling parties of Senegal ex-presidents Macky Sall and Abdoulaye Wade have formed a coalition for a snap ...

August, roughly a month and a half before his new book, The Message, was set to be published, and Ta-Nehisi Coates was in my ...