President John Dramani Mahama has underscored the need for closer collaboration between West African countries to fight the canker of insurgency and extremism.According to President Mahama, though not a new phenomenon,

The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has disclosed that The Gambia is among four countries across the sub region identified in combating "illegal mining" and other "associated crimes".

The West African police action, known as Operation Sanu, also marked a first for tackling illegal sand mining in Gambia. Raids in the Kombo and south coastal belt regions resulted in seven arrests and the seizure of mining equipment and sand-loaded trucks, Interpol said.

The descriptive text for each was written by Father Johann Roten, S.M. Feast of the Upright People G. Tassou Burkina Faso, formerly Upper-Volta, is a landlocked country south of the Sahara Desert in Western Africa. A longtime French colony and overseas ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- Their loved ones were slaughtered by Islamic extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes destroyed. Exhausted and traumatized, they fled in search of safety, food and shelter.

The operations, code-named Sanu, were carried out in Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea and Senegal from June to October last year. Investigators seized a large quantity of chemicals and equipment used ...

The Ineos Oxford Institute has been awarded £5 million to develop vaccines for pathogens that cause diarrhoea.

The senior pastor of Alabaster International Ministries, Prophet Kofi Oduro, has denounced individuals who are targeting Ibrahim Traore, the leader of Burkina Faso, for reportedly carrying a gun ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The young West African students touched down in what was then the Soviet Union knowing only a handful of Russian words and little about their new home. Decades later ...

President John Dramani Mahama has underscored the need for closer collaboration between West African countries to fight the canker of insurgency and extremism.

A sweeping Interpol-led operation targeting illegal mining in West Africa has led to the arrest of 200 people and the seizure of substances worth $100,000.

Ghana, a country bordered by french speaking countries with Burkina Faso to the North, Ivory Coast to the West and Togo to the East, has once again demonstrated a great example to the rest of the continent by transitioning smoothly to a new administration .