An overloaded canoe capsized on a reservoir in Burkina Faso, killing at least 15 women and children, state radio reported Sunday.

An overloaded canoe capsized on a reservoir in Burkina Faso, killing 16 women and children, state radio reported Sunday.

A collision between a passenger bus and a truck killed more than 60 people Saturday in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, officials said.

A collision between a passenger bus and a truck killed more than 30 people Saturday in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, the state radio reported.

Signatories to Ivory Coast’s peace deal are officially postponing elections meant to secure the West African nation’s fragile postwar calm.

One of Liberia’s most infamous warlords admitted Tuesday that he had trained in Libya and helped topple the government of Burkina Faso before overthrowing Liberia’s president.

National radio says at least 31 people have been killed in a mudslide at an unofficial gold mine in Burkina Faso.

Zimbabwe’s foreign minister said Tuesday that President Robert Mugabe is ready to form a unity government, but remained vague on the role opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai would play.The announcement follows international calls for such a union, but...

Judges in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Tuesday allowed video of victims describing how they were sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.The ruling by the three-judge...

Prosecutors launched their war crimes case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Monday, taking testimony from an expert on blood diamonds and showing video of a Sierra Leone miner whose hands had been hacked off.The 11 charges against him..