Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

About 40km of West Coast beaches have been polluted by an ... Seabird conservation group SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds) is on high alert and has ...

Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa's main political and trade group ECOWAS on Wednesday after more than a year of diplomatic tensions. The withdrawal has ...

LAGOS, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the bloc following their ...

Clean-up operations continue on West Coast beaches after an oil spill from ... progress", according to a statement by the South African Maritime Safety Association (SAMSA) this week.

France on Thursday withdrew from its sole military base in Ivory Coast, in West Africa, according to media reports. France’s Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu attended the official ...

France has given up most of its military footprint across west Africa with astonishing speed. By the end of the year, the only remaining French base in Africa will be in Djibouti. Driven by ...

This moment could provide an opportunity for West African states to shake off the remnants of the power imbalance that characterized France’s presence, and reshuffle the cards of military and ...

Nowhere is the trend towards resource nationalism more advanced than in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s ...

Climate change is having a significant impact on cocoa production in West and Central Africa, according to a ... by 2060 in four countries: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon.

ABIDJAN - The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States takes effect on Wednesday after a year of political tensions, fracturing the region and ...

Chatham House convening and research focuses on social norms and anti-corruption programming in Nigeria; cross-border conflict and smuggling across West Africa as part of the XCEPT research programme; ...