Across the West African Economic and Monetary Union, governments are tightening mining regulations to boost revenue for development. But as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso push reforms, investor ...

It is very difficult to imagine how a group of heads of state could negotiate with a government that is not legally established by the people of a country to leave ECOWAS. ECOWAS and AU have both ...

From left, Emir Price, Zariyah Perry and Sinclair Freeman star in Soul Rep Theatre's production of "The African Company Presents Richard III." Carlyle Brown's 1988 play is based on the true story of ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has dismissed claims that candidates of 2024 West African Senior School ...

It’s tempting to overcompensate for the absence of Black history by teaching only perfect, pristine, and pure histories.

An announcement on the future of Resolute Mining boss Terry Holohan is looming, after the gold chief took time off to recover from his shock detention in Mali in November.

A vessel drifting in the Caribbean Sea contained 19 badly decomposed bodies, at least some from Mali, authorities in the ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) today is down -538 (-4.58%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) is down -342 (-3.72%). Cocoa prices ...

A court in Benin on Thursday sentenced two former allies of President Patrice Talon to 20 years in jail on charges of ...

Two men close to Benin’s president were sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday, following their arrest last year on suspicions of plotting a coup in the small West African country.

Mujhait Muhammad would brace himself as evening fell, when the five smugglers manning the boat bound for Europe would begin ...

A landslide engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them, the governor’s office of the Koulikoro region in the West African country said Thursday.