The leopard species has been officially reclassified as endangered in the West African region, following a population decline ...

NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ghana – the first by an Indian leader in more than three decades – put resources, trade, and security cooperation at the center of a renewed ...

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

A wave of billion-dollar investments is modelling Nigeria's digital economy as global and local tech firms race to build high-capacity data centers that can process, store, and secure the country's ...

West Africa is one of the most expensive regions in the world to drill, making it more challenging for African producers in Nigeria to compete globally, according to Deloitte’s 2025 West Africa Oil ...

The oil and gas industry across sub-Saharan Africa stands at a decisive turning point, according to a new Deloitte report on the West Africa Oil and Gas Outlook. From Nigeria’s hydrocarbon-rich delta ...

There are only about 350 mature leopards left in West Africa, according to the latest regional assessment by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. Leopards (Panthera pardus) in West ...

Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar. Image © Pierre Laborde via Shutterstock The history of the museum as a typology is a long and complex one. Since prehistoric ...

Roughly a third of the cocaine consumed in Europe is thought to transit through West Africa, where Balkan crime syndicates have embedded themselves in the region’s maritime trade. Exploiting weak ...

What Is the Continental Internet Exchange? *The buzz about “Africa creating its own internet” refers to the launch of the Continental Internet Exchange (CIX), a landmark African Union project ...

The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) announced yesterday that it rolled up an Islamic State (IS) financial network that spanned three unspecified West African countries. According to Iraqi ...

Europe must wake up to the threat of an emerging cocaine hub in West Africa, built by Western Balkan crime gangs. At first glance, the developing ports of West Africa and the criminal underworld of ...