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.

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 ...

Each night, throughout Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, families gather, neighbors share food freely and communities come ...

A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

Mini-grids generate electricity for small communities that aren’t on national supply networks — and the economics suggest ...

When I first spoke to Yap Boum II in January, 2025, he had recently become Deputy Incident Manager for the continental ...

Vance’s populist backlash is a gesture at a larger, uncomfortable reality: the US-led ...

A solar power plant in this rural corner of Mali has jolted a village to life and awakened dreams of steady power in this ...

Abdourahamane Tchiani, an army veteran, was also elevated to the country’s highest military rank and signed a decree ...