Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African ...

Across the West African Economic and Monetary Union, governments are tightening mining regulations to boost revenue for development. But as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso push reforms, investor ...

A vessel drifting in the Caribbean Sea contained 19 badly decomposed bodies, at least some from Mali, authorities in the ...

Once an emblematic landmark of traditional west African architecture, Dakar's fondly remembered Sandaga market can now only be marvelled at through old photographs.

French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad this week before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s ...

It’s tempting to overcompensate for the absence of Black history by teaching only perfect, pristine, and pure histories.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has dismissed claims that candidates of 2024 West African Senior School ...

A court in Benin on Thursday sentenced two former allies of President Patrice Talon to 20 years in jail on charges of ...

It is very difficult to imagine how a group of heads of state could negotiate with a government that is not legally established by the people of a country to leave ECOWAS. ECOWAS and AU have both ...

Two men close to Benin’s president were sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday, following their arrest last year on suspicions of plotting a coup in the small West African country.

The contrast has to do with the country’s evolving stature both in Africa and the West, where officials have long admired ...

Two months after Chad severed its defence agreement with Paris, the French army has handed over its last military base in the country. It comes after Paris handed over its two other bases in the ...