Another October bank holiday weekend comes and goes but the weather remains the same — wet, windy and miserable.

More than a dozen people have been injured in two car bomb attacks in Niger.

Islamist guerrillas are turning the vast Sahara into a new theatre of war against the West, writes Alex Diaz

A Malian official said kidnappers have liberated four foreign hostages who had been held for months, including two UN staffers.