ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Six people have been arrested and released on bail in connection with last month’s killing in Ghana of an undercover journalist who exposed a high-ranking official at FIFA as corrupt, police said on Friday.

David Eklu, director general of police public affairs, said the ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s former President Abdoulaye Wade has called for a boycott of the West African nation’s Feb. 24 elections, accusing the current president of locking down the vote.

Wade returned to Dakar Thursday as hundreds greeted him at the airport, cheering and wearing ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The commander general of Burkina Faso’s army says five gendarmes are dead and three wounded after jihadists retaliated against counterterror operations that killed 146 of their fighters earlier this week.

Commander Gen. Moise Minoungou also said late ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s foreign ministry is denying United States allegations of noncooperation in taking back thousands of its deported nationals, which has led to visa restrictions.

A statement late Friday by the West African nation notes the restrictions “with concern and ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The United States says it has imposed visa restrictions on Ghana, saying the West African nation is not cooperating in taking back its deported nationals.

A Department of Homeland Security statement says Ghana “has denied or unreasonably delayed accepting their ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s president has nominated a new prime minister after a mass resignation last week.

President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Saturday appointed Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire as the West African nation’s new premier in a decree read on Burkina ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked jihadists carried out one of the deadliest attacks on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in months, killing 10 peacekeepers and wounding at least 25 in northern Mali, the U.N. said Sunday.

All of the peacekeepers killed in the assault on their camp in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The French military says it has carried out airstrikes in central Mali that killed some 15 members of an unnamed extremist group that had been preparing an attack.

A statement on Saturday says the airstrikes were carried out on Jan. 10 in coordination with the West ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A Canadian national has been found dead a day after reports of his kidnapping by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso’s volatile north near the Niger border, the West African nation’s security ministry said Thursday.

The ministry said Kirk Woodman’s body was ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A Canadian national has been kidnapped by suspected extremists in Burkina Faso near its border with Niger, the West African nation’s security ministry said Wednesday.

The Canadian man, identified as Kirk Woodman, was abducted overnight during a raid on a ...

LONDON (AP) — A British computer hacker has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a cyberattack that knocked out telecommunications services in Liberia.

Daniel Kaye was paid by an employee of a rival firm to launch a distributed denial of service attack on Liberian phone and internet ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A federal jury has found a suburban North Texas couple guilty of enslaving a Guinean woman for 16 years.

Jurors found Mohamed Toure (TOHR’-eh) and his wife, Denise Cros-Toure, guilty Thursday of forced labor. They face up to 20 years in prison, but no sentencing ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States said Thursday that Nigeria’s upcoming national elections will be “a critical test of democracy” in the country and the region, and expressed concern at reports of intimidation and partisanship by government security forces.

U.S. deputy ambassador ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Some 30,000 people have fled fresh fighting in northeastern Nigeria, the United Nations said Wednesday, amid what the government has called an extremist resurgence.

The clashes between Nigeria’s military and armed groups near Lake Chad late last month triggered “massive ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government says the death toll has jumped to 46 in community clashes earlier this week amid growing fears of extremism.

Spokesman Remis Dandjinou in a statement read on national television on Friday said the new toll remains provisional while ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Chef Carla Hall knows soul food. She’s been cooking it for her entire career. Now, her mission is to reclaim it. When she set out to trace the path of soul food throughout the South, that journey brought her to Alabama.

In her cookbook “Carla Hall’s Soul Food: ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s security minister says 10 gendarmes have been killed in an ambush after unidentified attackers set fire to a school near the border with Mali.

Clement Sawadogo says troops who arrived to reinforce the gendarmes in Sourou province early ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Suspected jihadists on motorcycles have killed at least 42 people during a series of attacks on Tuareg nomadic camps in Mali, local leaders said Thursday.

Moussa Ag Acharatoumane, a Tuareg self-defense official, said the attacks took place Tuesday and Wednesday in the ...

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — The U.S. State Department says former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and members of his immediate family are now ineligible for entry into the United States.

The decision comes almost two years after Jammeh was forced into exile in Equatorial Guinea after he refused ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali faces unprecedented violence in its central region where extremists, armed groups and the military are committing abuses as fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group move in from the north, international rights groups said Wednesday.

More than 75,000 ...

Mauritania qualified for its first major soccer tournament on Sunday when it beat Botswana to claim a place at next year’s African Cup of Nations.

It was the second major surprise of qualifying after Madagascar sealed a spot at the African Cup for the first time last ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is reducing its counterterrorism forces in Africa and studying whether to make similar moves elsewhere in the world as part of a broad effort to shift American military focus toward what it calls threats from Russia and China.

The planned 10 percent cut from ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s African Cup of Nations qualifier against Kenya on Sunday has been canceled as the West African nation remains suspended by FIFA for government interference in its national association.

It’s the third Sierra Leone qualifier to be canceled after ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The young man traversed Andean mountains, plains and cities in buses, took a harrowing boat ride in which five fellow migrants drowned, walked through thick jungle for days, and finally reached the U.S.-Mexico border.

Then Abdoulaye Camara, from the poor West African ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Two young men were fatally shot amid continuing political unrest following the disputed results of this West African country’s first municipal elections in 13 years, authorities said Thursday.

The two were killed at a demonstration in the capital city of Conakry on ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — International rights groups are urging Mauritania to release anti-slavery activists, as the United States has announced it will end trade benefits to the West African country over the continuation of slavery.

Amnesty International and 32 other human rights ...