Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo with immediate effect and initiated an ...

A court in Cote d’Ivoire ruled on Tuesday that opposition leader and former Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam ...

Yakubu has overseen two general elections (2019 and 2023), making him the longest-serving INEC chairman since Nigeria’s ...

Understanding women's role in illicit activities is key to reducing their likelihood of becoming associated with violent extremists. Women's involvement in illicit economic activities in West ...

Illegal gold panning is a major economic activity in many parts of West Africa. For example, in Burkina Faso’s east and south-west, and parts of north-eastern Côte d’Ivoire, it has enabled insurgents ...

Temperature: Morning fog over the interior, otherwise partly cloudy and cool with isolated showers and thundershowers in the ...

In the heart of West Africa's burgeoning mining sector ... technologies leader Hexagon director for Europe, Middle East and Africa Dominik Ribi showcasing advancements in reducing carbon ...

A. Yellow level 4 warning: Disruptive rainfall resulting in flooding of roads and settlements (formal and informal) and major ...

During this pause, investments from the Middle East in Africa increased. “It’s as dramatic as the withdrawal of the others,” Lopes says. Lopes says that, unlike China, which has the people and ...

In recent years, West Africa’s highest court and a pan-African human rights body have ruled the expulsion of pregnant girls to be in violation of legally binding African charters on children’s ...

When we resumed at Harvard Kennedy School last year, Africa became a topic of interest among many of our fellow students. As discussions unfolded during our classes and informal gatherings, it became ...

A bedtime story written by a journalist for his daughter during lockdown has grown into a reforestation movement reaching 30,000 children in West Africa ... 20 kilometres east of Mbour, in ...