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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let us not forget that in 2024, West Africa exported goods valued at over $166 billion. “Yet only 8.6 percent of that trade remained within our borders.

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 ...

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 ...