Mercedes-Benz is poised to deepen its manufacturing footprint in West Africa with plans to establish a truck assembly plant ...

Andrew Feinstein about the role of German arms manufacturers in the international arms trade, about the new wave of ...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who is set to travel to West Africa on Monday, is hoping to expand cooperation with Senegal and Ivory Coast in order to prevent instability currently ...

[1/3]German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the press with Ghana's president Nana Akufo-Addo (not pictured) during a three-day visit to West Africa, in Accra, Ghana October 31, 2023.

His grandfather, who came from East Westphalia, emigrated to what was then German South West Africa in 1910, acquired farmland and set up a cattle farm. Von Hase later took it over.

Abandoned buildings are a common feature of cities in West Africa. But there are ways to protect and celebrate ...

The German martyrs in Africa whose profiles have been documented include Father Franz Jäger, a member of the Oblates who was killed in 1905 in South West Africa during the Herero Uprising.

It had counter-insurgency troops in West Africa for a decade but turned to Niger to base the bulk of its forces following coups in neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso in 2021 and 2022, respectively.

But until he visited Africa himself in the early 1990s, Kraume had never heard of the darkest chapters in German history: the massacre, between 1904 and 1908, of tens of thousands of Herero and ...