The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has quietly built a functioning state-like economy across the Lake Chad region, controlling farms and cattle business through a complex taxation and ...

Ghana finds itself in a troubling economic cycle--where prices of goods and services continue to rise, often without justification or regulatory oversight. While global and local economic dynamics do ...

According to the West African Banking Commission, the 160 banks in the monetary union have just 21 million accounts for an estimated population of 142 million, which is equivalent to the number of ...

The statistics agency recalculated the value of GDP based on production patterns in 2019, and gave some sectors a bigger ...

Intra-regional trade remains under 10%—a challenge we can no longer afford to ignore. The low trade is not due to a failure of will but a coordination failure. The global economy will not wait ...

Ninety minutes couldn’t separate the Elephants and the Lions of Teranga. On 30 January 2024, a packed Charles Konan Banny Stadium in Yamoussoukro hosted a dream Round of 16 clash in the Africa Cup of ...

In a major move to reshape the maritime and blue economy landscape of West and Central Africa, the management of the Regional Maritime Development Bank (RMDB) has engaged key officials of Nigeria ...

I believe the key factors that could aid the establishment of a jihadist state in the Sahel region of west Africa include mutually reinforcing issues such as population explosion, failure of ...