But a new study published this week found some of our ancestors managed to survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known. A team of researchers found evidence that ...

Previous estimates put the earliest human habitation in West Africa at 30,000 years ago. Moreover, the site was in a mangrove ...

Africa is home to at least four subspecies: the southern savanna buffalo (or Cape buffalo), the West African savanna buffalo, the Central African savanna buffalo, and the forest buffalo.

With one of the most diverse ecosystems in West Africa’s savanna belt, it is a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation World Heritage Site and shelters threatened ...

Cocoa prices settled moderately lower on Tuesday as favorable weather in West Africa aids pod developments and should boost yields for the upcoming mid-crop cocoa harvest. Cocoa prices have been ...

Cem Ozdel / Getty Images On the same day in Senegal, staff at Dakar's Massalikoul Djinane Mosque, the biggest mosque in West Africa, prepare for the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Cem Ozdel ...

At $2,900 a year, GDP per person is the highest in west Africa except for tiny Cape Verde. What is sparking the boom? It is too sustained to be explained solely by a post-war rebound. The answer ...