For a foreign correspondent in Mali, the assignment seemed like a dream: as Islamic extremists upended the region, Olivier ...

Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday.

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried ...

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso ...

ESPN ranks every one of the 24 qualifiers, and forecasts who will go the distance at the continental showpiece in Morocco later this year.

ESPN presents everything you need to know ahead of the AFCON group stage draw, including details about the event, the format ...

By a mere stroke of fortune, certain places have become endowed with what makes them stand out. An example of this is Bawku ...

The Network Against Trafficking, Abuse and Labour, NACTAL, has charged the the federal government to double effort to stop human trafficking from Kogi ...

Earlier this month, soldiers swooped by helicopter into a vast mining complex in western Mali and made away with three tonnes of gold -- all done on the orders of the military government.In the same ...

Four Moroccan truck drivers who were kidnapped in West Africa over the weekend have been released in Niger. The drivers are the latest victims of insecurity in the Sahel, an ...

A Cameroonian priest, Father Humphrey Tatah Mbuy, has criticized African leaders and the intelligentsia for their silence on ...