West Africa is emerging as a global hotspot for gold M&A as record prices and the region's rich geology entice miners.

Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources ...

One of West Africa's most iconic hiking destinations is under threat and diminishing fast due to illegal 'slash and burn' farming. Located in the Southern Koinadugu region of Sierra Leone, the Loma ...

The government in South Africa says it will not help about 4,000 miners inside an illegal closed mine in the country's North ...

In collaboration with Afreximbank, ART X Lagos also presented Art Across Borders: Where to Go, featuring six mid-career ...

West Africa’s coastal areas are home to about one-third of the region’s people—and the population is growing 4% each year. A very large proportion, about 40%, of West Africa’s gross domestic product ...

Our East-West fibre route isn't just a line on a map – it's Africa's digital lifeline.” The new state-of-the-art terrestrial ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...

A year after that paper was published, West and Central Africa was swept by one of the worst seasonal flooding disasters on record with more than 8.5 million people affected across 20 countries ...

In the heart of Benin City, the Museum of West African Arts , MOWAA, is rising as a cultural beacon, reclaiming the ancient ...

A middle-aged Iowa resident who recently traveled to West Africa has died from Lassa fever, state health officials confirmed Monday. "I want to assure Iowans that the risk of transmission is ...

Analysis - The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in ...