Ecowas has been struggling to keep its membership intact after Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, all junta-led states, decided to ...

Russia’s Wagner Group, fighting alongside Malian soldiers, has been accused of massacring civilians, burning villages, and ...

Over the last decade, West Africa has been shaken by extremist uprisings and military coups. Groups linked to al-Qaida and ...

The amendments to the Law on Higher Education, overshadowed in parliamentary debate by unrest, smoke, and incidents in the ...

Kimbirila-Nord: With its tomato patches and grazing cattle, the Ivory Coast village of Kimbirila-Nord hardly looks like a ...

That’s why Nigeria is placing its bets on solar mini-grids—small installations that produce up to 10 megawatts of electricity ...

Barrick Gold (GOLD) shares rose 1.6% in midday trading Friday after the company outlined its strategy for 30% growth in ...

Mansa Musa, emperor of Mali, is deemed the richest man in history, with wealth so vast that historians struggle to quantify it accurately.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has mobilized its Standby Force to address terrorism and other ...