West Africa

President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce France will withdraw its forces from Mali, amid a breakdown in relations with the country’s...

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, canceled a planned visit to Liberia this week to focus instead on...

Denmark will partially suspend its development aid to Mali after the forced departure of its soldiers from the country, as...

Africa's efforts to build up capacity to manufacture vaccines against COVID-19 are not designed to meet this year's needs but...

Military Prosecutors in Burkina Faso on Tuesday requested a 30-year prison term for former President Blaise Compaoré, for the 1987...

Nigerian MPs have thrown their weight behind the establishment of a local vaccine development plant. On Tuesday, the lower house...

Senegal has rewarded each member of the national football team with cash prizes and plots of land following their win...

By Nicolas Florquin*, & Alaa Tartir* Eolika, a Guyana-flagged cargo vessel, had already been detained in the port of Senegalese...

Oil has an outsize influence on Nigeria's economy despite representing a relatively small proportion of its GDP, about 9 percent...

Nigeria has received 2 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Finland, Greece and Slovenia, with more...