West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

West African gold explorer Many Peaks Minerals has made a very strong start to 2025 thanks to exploration success in Cote d’Ivoire.

MANCHESTER UNITED are braced for a MASSIVE summer transfer window – with Ruben Amorim expected to overhaul the squad with ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti. The wind originates from ...