U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that could block International Monetary Fund (IMF) support for some Central ...

The voluntary return of nearly 20,000 Central African refugees marks a key step toward sustainable peace and development in the region, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today.

Thousands have protested plans of Central African Republic's president to run for a third term with the backing of ...

In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.

Kenyan president William Ruto has been forced to cancel events in the Mount Kenya region after its leaders fought over money ...

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, has called for accelerated customs reform across West and Central Africa, in a bold move to revamp regional trade and ...

The United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary General for the Great Lakes Region H.E Huang Xia yesterday paid a courtesy ...

Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The Times, covering 25 countries including Nigeria, Congo, the countries in the Sahel region as well as Central Africa.

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has commuted the death sentences of three Americans convicted of attempting a coup to life imprisonment, days before US government officials are ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...