Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

As we look ahead to 2025, the future of payments looks increasingly digital, flexible and driven by consumer choice. Contactless payments are giving consumers and merchants more ways to transact; ...

A priest in the Awka Diocese in Nigeria has encouraged journalists to expose Christian persecution, which is at its highest ...

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

A Ugandan nurse died of 'unexplained bleeding from multiple sources' linked to Ebola , the first recorded death since the ...