Tag: West Africa

Voters in Benin go to the polls on Sunday for a parliamentary election seen as a test of democracy as ...

Souloukna Mourga plodded through his flooded millet and cotton field in northern Cameroon and uprooted soggy stems that had a ...

A tiny green grasshopper-shaped parasite has infested cotton crops across West Africa and slashed output forecasts for the 2022/23 season, ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa will be visiting four West African countries this week in an effort to promote South Africa's economic ...

West African leaders will meet on Thursday to decide how to respond to the coup in Guinea and how to ...

Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday suspended Mali’s membership of the regional bloc in response to ...

Gambian authorities seized nearly three tonnes of cocaine from a shipment of industrial salt originating in Ecuador, a spokesman said ...

Mediators from West Africa’s regional bloc reached agreement on certain points in talks with Mali’s military junta that are aimed ...

Mediators from West Africa's regional bloc are due in Mali on Saturday for talks aimed at reversing a coup that ...

France and five West African states agreed on Monday to combine their military forces under one command structure to fight a ...

West Africa’s monetary union has agreed with France to rename its CFA franc the Eco and cut some of the ...

About 70 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military camp in Niger near the border with Mali on ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in West Africa.

France’s armed forces minister criticized close ally Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for failing to honor commitments it made almost two ...

The toll is among the highest suffered by Malian forces this year as they struggle to contain militant groups with ...

As the world marks 400 years since the first recorded African slaves arrived in North America, slavery remains a modern-day ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the international community Wednesday to support West Africa's fight against violent extremism, saying the region ...

A report by Oxfam and DFI said the vast majority of West Africans were "denied the most essential elements of ...

The persistence of Congo’s Ebola outbreak and its deadly spread to Uganda in recent days show how societal issues are ...