West African leaders have given Yahya Jammeh a final opportunity to relinquish power after Senegalese troops entered The Gambia. Mr Jammeh has been given until noon on Friday to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed regional forces. Troops have ...

West African leaders have given Yahya Jammeh a final opportunity to relinquish power after Senegalese troops entered The Gambia. Mr Jammeh has been given until noon on Friday to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed regional forces. Troops have ...

Scott Pruitt arriving for his confirmation hearing to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times. WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet nominees, while ...

Ghana can secure a place in the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations with a group game to spare if they beat Mali in Group D in Port-Gentil on Saturday. Avram Grant's side, beaten on penalties by the Ivory Coast in the 2015 final, set themselves ...

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump arrived in Washington the day before his inauguration as the nation's 45th president in a swirl of cinematic pageantry but facing serious questions about whether his chaotic transition has left critical parts of the ...

West African armies halted an operation in Gambia aimed at installing the country's new president, Adama Barrow, on Thursday so regional leaders could make one last attempt to convince longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh to step aside. Barrow took the oath of ...

The chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court, who was presiding over the sweeping corruption case that ensnarled politicians and movers and shakers from across the country, died Thursday when the small plane he was traveling in crashed off the coast of ...

The chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court, who was presiding over the sweeping corruption case that ensnarled politicians and movers and shakers from across the country, died Thursday when the small plane he was traveling in crashed off the coast of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Supreme Court justice overseeing parts of the investigation into corruption at Brazil's national oil company died on Thursday in the crash of a small plane, stunning the country as investigators are intensifying their efforts to ...

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump campaigned on a detailed and extensive to-do list for his first day in office. A day before his swearing-in, his team was being coy about when and how he plans to cross items off it. As he's assembled his new government, ...

Donald Trump: 'When the campaign started I called it the forgotten man and forgotten woman. Well, you're not forgotten any more.' Photograph: REX/Shutterstock. David Smith in Washington. Thursday 19 January 2017 20.26 EST Last modified on Thursday ...

Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump swept into Washington Thursday embracing soaring patriotism and pledging unity on the eve of the most consequential moment of the billionaire Republican's life -- his inauguration as 45th president of the United States.

“Macho men don't play football” a Ghanaian football fan posted defiantly on social media. Well, football isn't restricted to a particular stature, but you can understand the fan's anxiety. At the ongoing AFCON 2017 in Gabon, His favourite team comes up ...

Donald Trump has pledged to unify America as he addressed cheering supporters at a concert on the eve of his presidential inauguration. Speaking on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, the president-elect also promised to bring change.