The U.N.'s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...

West African cocoa production, which has faced two successive below-average harvests, is likely to see another 10% decline in ...

Demand for coffee is growing globally - but despite much of it being grown on the continent, very little is roasted locally ...

Terrorist groups are becoming more daring with increased attacks on military camps across the west Africa region.

“Our president literally has worse geography skills than a kindergartner ... the lunch was to discuss African trade deals with the U.S., and many West African Leaders were present, according to The ...

One of the study’s key findings is that geography was the dominant factor in shaping gut ... while rural communities, particularly in West Africa, maintained a richer microbial diversity. “In rural ...

Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.

Analysis - In the Sahel, violent terrorism--now structural--and various forms of trafficking, including that of migrants, are linked structural realities. The agonizing Trans borders cooperation is ...

Young West African ‘catfish’ scammers have turned cyber-fraud into a cornerstone of transnational crime by recycling age-old scams for the social media age. We investigate.

Nigeria and Brazil signed a $1 billion agreement at the State House in Abuja, aiming to transform Nigeria's agricultural sector through the Green Imperative initiative. The deal, formalised during the ...

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are disrupting the crop, affecting both the quantity and quality of beans — and ...