The African Union Summit is currently under way in Addis Ababa, marking 50 years since the formation of its forerunner the Organisation of African Unity. Read more »

Leaders attending the Second Ordinary Session of the Pan-African Parliament have stressed the need for industrial revolution to end the rising rate of youth unemployment in the ... Read more »

The UN is set to renew its MINURSO mandate in the Western Sahara to facilitate the Saharawi people's disire for self-determination in the face of Morocco's continued occupation of ... Read more »

The country has started its 100 Days of Genocide remembrance, which will continue until July 4, on the 19th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Read more »

As Al Qaeda's wing in north Africa announced it has killed a French hostage in retaliation for French intervention, the UN refugee agency says it is worried that air and ground ... Read more »

Studio-Live is setting up projects in the Saharawi refugee camps in the hope of reshaping society through music and poetry. Read more »

Mali's Interim President Dioncounda Traore has ruled out talks with Islamist groups who ruled the north for nine months, but said he was ready to meet Tuareg activists from the ... Read more »

Food is getting scarce in many of the markets in the Gao region of northern Mali and stocks are likely to end in few weeks, according to the international charity group, Oxfam. Read more »

More than 10,000 antipersonnel mines were reportedly destroyed in the Sahrawi-occupied territories since 2005. Read more »

The dispute over the Western Sahara has lasted "far too long" , and parties should move swiftly into negotiations amid the rising threat of extremist elements in the Sahel region, ... Read more »