West Africa Stories
These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until now, though, the oldest...
Africa's leading gold producer is shifting away from a system in which local and foreign companies with export licences can buy and export gold from a...
The married singers, who met when she was 18 and he 21, took traditional Mali music and blended it with western rock and many other influences to shap...
Following the August 30, 2023 coup, the PSC, during its 1172nd session, suspended Gabon from all AU activities until constitutional order is restored.
It’s important to strengthen impact observation networks across west Africa and enhance air quality monitoring, especially in urban areas, where local...
The ECOWAS team was sent to Guinea-Bissau last month to facilitate a "political consensus" on the timing of upcoming elections.
Their decision to withdraw was announced in January 2024, citing dissatisfaction with the bloc's increasing ties to France.
As part of the informal division of security responsibilities among Western nations, France has long been considered the “gendarme of Africa”.
Groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaeda are committed to the establishment of these states, denouncing democratic governance.
NGO's critical reports on human rights are inconvenient for the junta leaders, making them a thorn in the side of West Africa's military regimes.
Three countries in the insurgency-torn central Sahel region have set up their own alliance.
The vaccine was deployed during the 2018-2020 Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo under emergency use authorisation.
With a strong Christian faith, she remains a traditional role model. She believes in strict regulations of highly limited abortion and is no friend of...
Boats have been coming from further away in West Africa, with smugglers packing in up to 300 people on each craft.
SWAPO candidate and current vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah could become Namibia’s first female president,
West Africa’s recent string of coups can only be understood in the long view of postcolonial history. The military regimes of the past were brutally i...
A video seen by Reuters showed bodies of at least five white men in army fatigues lying around a military vehicle following an attack.
The military rulers, who seized power in successive coups in 2020 and 2021, had promised to hold elections in February but have postponed the vote ind...
ECOWAS said it was lifting financial and economic sanctions against Guinea and ending restrictions on the recruitment of Malians to professional posit...
With its reputation at stake, ECOWAS's handling of the latest political upheaval - in Senegal - is being closely watched.
