Mopti Region, MaliA recent surge of attacks by an al Qaeda-linked group across Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger signals its ...

Export bans in Burkina Faso, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, and Togo shake up global shea supply. Shea butter demand rises as a cheaper cocoa butter alternative in confectionery. Local processors may benefit, ...

The $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Seaport has started  international transhipment of cargoes to neighbouring West African countries ...

The FIBA Zone 3 U-16 AfroBasket Qualifiers for boys and girls are set to tip off Thursday, July 10, at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Gymnasium, with five West African nations, including host Liberia, vying ...

Al-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks ...

Nigeria to open MOWAA in Benin City in Nov. 2025, showcasing West African art and repatriated Benin Bronzes in a world-class ...

A powerful, opaque al-Qaeda affiliate is rampaging across West Africa With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the ...

Analysis - Benin's Pendjari Biosphere Reserve, also called Pendjari National Park, and its surroundings have been targeted by non-state armed groups since 2019.

Western companies' one-size-fits-all AI strategies don't serve many of the world's populations. These African researchers are working to change that.

The beautiful village on a lake that's 'the Venice of Africa' where people travel by canoe Instead of travelling by motorcycles and cars, villagers opt for canoes as their mode of transport.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel ...

Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade.