The Nigerian rebel group, Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, stated on Wednesday that it wants peace talks before a ceasefire agreement.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized that her seven-country tour of Africa was intended to promote unity and democracy, fight corruption, and boost US investments in African trade and agriculture.

There was great joy and relief in Switzerland this evening as news came through that Swiss national Werner Greiner, who had been held hostage by an al-Qaeda group in Mali since January, had been freed.

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a $15.5 million out-of-court settlement in a case that accuses the company of complicity in human rights abuses in Niger Delta, Nigeria.

Mali officials say that two Canadian diplomats held hostage by African militants were released on Wednesday. The two were held captive for four months.

The United Nations said it is shutting down its Humanitarian Air Service in West Africa due to a serious lack of funding.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague holds hearings in April, requested by Belgium, about Senegal 's refusal to extradite convicted war criminal and self-exiled former leader Hissène Habré, who was sentenced in absentia in Chad...

Fifty-three million children under five are expected to be reached across eight West African countries in a coordinated polio immunization campaign.

A Canadian company this week was granted exclusive uranium-prospecting licenses in two ecologically very sensitive nature reserves in Namibia in the Namib Naukluft Park. The local Nama tribal chief warns that mining would destroy their desert homeland.