Exiled former Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, who became a rebel leader, has been sentenced in absentia to forced labour for life for conspiracy and rebellion, authorities said Friday

Recent political developments in Guinea Bissau and Burkina Faso have demonstrated that Mali's military coup was contagious for western Africa, the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Thursday

At least six people have been killed in an armed attack on the government house in Guinea-Bissau, Portuguese news agency Lusa reported Wednesday, citing military sources

The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is following with concern the evolution of the situation in Guinea-Bissau, and calls for immediate cessation of violent military hostilities that erupted on Tuesday, February 1, in Bissau