West Africa

After U.S. immigration agents detained Rabbiatu Kuyateh in July, she applied for protection from being deported to her native Sierra...

Sheikh Abubakar Gumi (1924–1992) is considered one of the influential figures in the religious and political history of modern Nigeria,...

The International Monetary Fund's new mission chief for Senegal will make a short trip to the West African nation early...

The Royal Palace of Porto-Novo, known locally as "Honmé" (meaning "inside the door"), is an important historical and cultural landmark...

Nigeria has hired a U.S. lobbying firm to help maintain U.S. support and counter what it has called misinformation by...

Isaline Attelly, a native of the Caribbean island of Martinique, had been living in Benin for nearly a year before...

The African Development Bank held its first meeting with a group of Arab development finance institutions in Abidjan on Tuesday...

Fans of two of Africa's top soccer nations have had their World Cup plans upended because of a travel ban...

Niger has revoked the licenses of around thirty transport operators and truck drivers for refusing to transport fuel to neighboring...

The United States has delivered critical military supplies to Nigeria to bolster the West African nation's operations, the U.S. military's...