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 ...
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 ...
Hydroacoustic signals captured by the world's international nuclear monitoring system suggest an underwater landslide may ...
France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...
When I first spoke to Yap Boum II in January, 2025, he had recently become Deputy Incident Manager for the continental ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso's ruling military junta arrested three prominent journalists, escalating its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human Rights ...
A solar power plant in this rural corner of Mali has jolted a village to life and awakened dreams of steady power in this ...
NIAMEY, Niger — Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was sworn in Wednesday as the country’s president for a ...
Abdourahamane Tchiani, an army veteran, was also elevated to the country’s highest military rank and signed a decree ...
Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, was on Wednesday sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of ...