West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

Cassava-based foods are staples enjoyed by millions of people around the world. From Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, to ...

West African gold explorer Many Peaks Minerals has made a very strong start to 2025 thanks to exploration success in Cote d’Ivoire.

Swedish software-defined satellite solutions group Remos Space Systems has secured €1 million ($1m) in seed funding led by ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

Chaos surrounded us. Informal porters rolling luggage carts zigzagged between cars. Commuters spilled from the bus terminal ...

Centre for strategic and international studies conducted an event on March 11, 2025. This is a discussion anchored by Natasha Hall, senior fellow of CSIS. The topic for this event was “How to overcome ...

Three Chinese nationals are missing after their vessel came under a "suspected pirate attack" off the coast of Ghana, ...

N'Golo Kante extended his philanthropic work to the country of his parents, Mali, after reportedly building a ...

India's naval diplomacy focuses on building trust and offering a 'non-coercive' alternative to China's investments, analysts ...

This will mark the first-ever overseas field maritime exercise led by the Indian Navy, signalling not just operational ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti. The wind originates from ...