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

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

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

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...