Air travel within West Africa remains the most expensive globally, posing a major challenge to regional integration, according to the Economic Community of West African States. This was disclosed ...

US deepwater driller Valaris has been awarded a contract in West Africa for five firm wells plus options for one of its drillships currently working in Brazil. The company said on Monday the ...

Four men from West Africa have been arrested in a sick “sextortion” scam that caused a California teen to take his own life, the Department of Justice announced. High school senior Ryan Last ...

The Kwara State Government has unveiled a 70-meter flagpole, describing it as the tallest in the West African region to make a bold declaration of identity and pride. The State Commissioner for ...

ASX-listed West African Resources says construction of the Kiaka gold project, in Burkina Faso, continues to progress on time and on budget for first gold production in the third quarter of this year.

At least 20 percent of the weapons used by Salafi jihadist groups in the Sahel had been seized from regular armies of eight North and West African countries, researchers found. This kind of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three years after a California teenager died by suicide, four men in West Africa have been arrested on suspicion of participating in “international sextortion scheme ...

Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, has been elected chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP). The 678-kilometer pipeline transports natural gas from Nigeria to Benin ...

In this issue you will see a unique invention that produces water. This is the south of Ethiopia, the village of the Dorze ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned that millions of people in West and Central Africa were facing record levels of hunger as conflict, displacement, economic hardship, and repeated extreme ...

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; ...

But that’s exactly what a group of five artists from Guinea-Bissau, a nation of just over two million people in West Africa, decided to do. They could no longer sit “with their arms crossed ...