West Africa

Niger’s government said Thursday it would nationalize the Somaïr uranium venture operated by French company Orano and accused it of...

The Netherlands on Thursday returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a...

The two opposition parties excluded from the forthcoming presidential election in Ivory Coast have formed an alliance demanding to be...

A suspected female suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and injured several others at a fish market on Friday...

Several hundred armed men, many on motorbikes, attacked a Niger army base near the border with Mali, leaving at least...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is a compulsory one-year program for Nigerian graduates. The Scheme, which was established by...

Nigeria's oil regulator is set to bring in a new rule that requires oil producers to obtain an export permit,...

West African nations want to strike deals with the U.S. over energy and rare earth minerals, but the Donald Trump...

Paulin J. Hountondji is one of the most important African philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a pivotal...

Joseph Ki-Zerbo is one of the most important African historians and thinkers of the twentieth century and a pivotal figure...