Across the West African Economic and Monetary Union, governments are tightening mining regulations to boost revenue for development. But as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso push reforms, investor ...

Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African ...

A vessel drifting in the Caribbean Sea contained 19 badly decomposed bodies, at least some from Mali, authorities in the ...

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

It is very difficult to imagine how a group of heads of state could negotiate with a government that is not legally established by the people of a country to leave ECOWAS. ECOWAS and AU have both ...

Two months after Chad severed its defence agreement with Paris, the French army has handed over its last military base in the country. It comes after Paris handed over its two other bases in the ...

A priest in the Awka Diocese in Nigeria has encouraged journalists to expose Christian persecution, which is at its highest ...

It’s tempting to overcompensate for the absence of Black history by teaching only perfect, pristine, and pure histories.

India, under the leadership of skipper Niki Prasad, entered the tournament fresh from winning the ACC U19 Women's Asia Cup ...

A Ugandan nurse died of 'unexplained bleeding from multiple sources' linked to Ebola , the first recorded death since the ...

The contrast has to do with the country’s evolving stature both in Africa and the West, where officials have long admired ...

As we look ahead to 2025, the future of payments looks increasingly digital, flexible and driven by consumer choice. Contactless payments are giving consumers and merchants more ways to transact; ...