Pirates who abducted 13 passengers, including eight students heading to sit the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in Bille, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State, have ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The insecurity plaguing West Africa is no longer France's concern, its state minister for ties with Francophone countries and international partnerships said on Friday, a ...

West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). While the specifics are ...

Far from curbing corporate abuse, a fragmented West could empower it further – with fewer checks and less scrutiny. Nor will rising powers like India or the Gulf states prioritise fairer terms for ...

“Across West Africa, abattoirs and dumpsites are well-known harvesting sites for vultures,” says Darcy Ogada, a Nairobi-based program director for The Peregrine Fund, a conservation group.

West African nations want to strike deals with the U.S. over energy and rare earth minerals, but the Trump administration's looming expansion of travel bans risks derailing those efforts, Nigeria ...