The Supreme Court is set to deliver a landmark judgment on whether children born out of wedlock under Islamic law are ...

What's the connection between roads and conflict in west Africa? This may seem like an odd question. But a study we conducted shows a close relationship between the two.We are researchers of ...

Yola, 09 June, 2025 / 11:40 pm (ACI Africa). Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Yola has defended his decision to build a mosque for Muslims displaced by Boko Haram insurgency, ...

Members of the Regional Union of Diocesan Priests of West Africa (RUPWA) have concluded their 11th Ordinary Congress with a renewed commitment to fostering intercultural and interreligious dialogue in ...

The west African road network is vast, estimated at over 709,000km of roads by the Global Roads Inventory Project. It ...

Asia is no longer their focus. After several years spent building its strength, Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is now the strongest military force in West Africa and among the most ...

West Africa has been one of the world's most violent regions since the mid 2010s. In 2024 alone, ... Attacks frequently occur along the same road segments, such as around Boni in the Gourma Mounts, ...

The Federal Government has announced that Nigeria will host the 2025 West Africa Economic Summit (WAES), a landmark event aimed at strengthening economic ties, unlocking investment opportunities ...

Eid-ul-Adha is traditionally marked by the slaughter of an animal, typically a goat, sheep, cow, bull or camel. Picture: Nigel Sibanda Thousands of Muslims in South Africa and across the globe are ...

That’s certainly the case of 1997’s Dakan (Destiny), from the African country of Guinea, which was the first film out of a sub-Saharan, West African country to ever depict homosexuality. The ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Flocks of sheep once quilted Morocco’s mountain pastures, stretched across Algeria’s vast plateaus and grazed along Tunisia’s green coastline. But the cascading effects of ...