Country awaits final presidential election result that could see 83-year-old Alassane Ouattara sworn in for fourth term. Tensions are mounting over President Ouattara’s decision to run for a fourth ...

Leaders from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are hoping to find a way to repel advancing fighters linked to al-Qaeda. Nigeria’s president says he sent fighter jets, troops to Benin to help quell a coup ...