Gambia's President Adama Barrow has returned to the country to assume power - days after his predecessor Yahya Jammeh left to go into exile.
Senegalese troops have entered The Gambia to ensure Adama Barrow assumes power as the country's new president, a Senegalese army spokesman has said.
Adama Barrow, the man who won The Gambia's disputed election, has been sworn in as president.
After more than two decades in power, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh faced the prospect of a military intervention by regional forces, as the man who...
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is refusing to step down despite efforts to persuade him to leave office ahead of a deadline set by Senegal.
A Nigerian air force jet has mistakenly bombed a camp for displaced people near Rann in the north-east, killing up to 100 people and injuring dozens...
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency a day before his official mandate ends.
Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday named outgoing prime minister Daniel Kablan Duncan as the country's first vice-president and...
Ivory Coast Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan resigned and dissolved the government on Monday in a move that had been expected following the...
Whether they like Trump or not, and some plainly don't, scores of the Republicans chosen to cast votes in the state-capital meetings told AP they feel...
West African leaders promised Saturday to enforce the results of a Gambian election that was won by a little-known businessman backed by an opposition...
Hospital sources said 200 others had been treated for injuries.
Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has rejected the result of the presidential election held earlier this month, a week after admitting defeat.
News has travelled the world that an organised gang based in Ghana ran a fake embassy selling real US visas for $6,000 (£4,700) for "about a decade"....
Yahya Jammeh, The Gambia's authoritarian president of 22 years, has suffered a surprise defeat in the country's general election.
Guinea-Bissau's President Jose Mario Vaz dissolved the government on Monday in an attempt to solve a political succession crisis that has paralysed...
South African President Jacob Zuma survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday, after the anti-graft watchdog called in a report for a judicial inquiry...
Nigerian troops rescued a Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists more than two years ago in a raid Saturday. She had a 10-month-old...
Dr Tjamena Murangi is seeing to a patient with a large infected wound on her arm - it is swollen and has lost colour. "Sorry Sisi, sorry," he says in...
South Africa has decided to withdraw from the International Criminal Court following a dispute last year over a visit by Sudanese President Omar...