Sen. Tammy Duckworth put Pete Hegseth’s foreign policy chops to the test during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday as ...

John Mahama has been sworn in as Ghana’s new president. He inherits a host of security challenges by dint of the country’s position in the west African region, which has become increasingly volatile.

By Jason Mitchell Gabon – home to 25% of the world’s manganese reserves and vast mineral riches – is rapidly establishing its ...

Guinea could hold a presidential and legislative election this year, the government spokesman said on Thursday, more than three years after a junta seized power in a coup.

A Guinean court on Tuesday handed an opposition figure two years in prison for "insulting and defaming" the head of the ruling junta, prompting condemnation from the opposition and Amnesty ...

Parts of Guinea's capital were on lockdown as civil society and opposition groups protested the ruling junta’s missed ...

Guinea exports over 100 million tons of bauxite. However, the country has only one alumina refinery; alumina is necessary to produce aluminum. Since 2022, the government led by Mamadi Doumbouya has ...

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the ...

Daniel Pinto, a 27-year-old adventurer from south London, became the first tourist to visit multiple indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea. Listen to Story Daniel Pinto became the first tourist to ...

Umaro Sissoco Embaló, President of The Republic of Guinea-Bissau. It was a pivotal ... was ousted in a military coup, with the new military ruler severing long-standing post-colonial ties with ...

He was assassinated by a political rival but, as the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat details with the twistiness of a real-life spy thriller, there were plenty others who wanted Lumumba ...

FILE: Guinea junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, raises his hand at his swearing in ceremony as president of country transion on 1 October 2021 in Conakry. Picture: Cellou BINANI / AFP CONAKRY ...