Growth in the 15 member states that make up the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, is likely to inch down ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Remote and poorly resourced outposts are soft targets for attacks, and a weak point in regional counter-terrorism efforts.

Remote and poorly resourced outposts are soft targets for attacks, and a weak point in regional counter-terrorism efforts.At least 15 confirmed Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacks have ...

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

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

“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 ...

Trump said he sees "great economic potential in Africa" as the leaders boasted of their countries' natural resources and ...

The West still believes that sanctions signal resolve. China has already moved on to testing what happens when they don’t.

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor descended from Horace Greeley.

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