Storyline: Many people in Niger have welcomed the country's departure from the Economic Community of West African States ...

France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in west Africa, and both sides say the ...

France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in West Africa, and both sides say the ...

The EU will remain the world's largest provider of Official Development Aid, accounting for more than 40 percent of aid. This ...

The search for an enduring solution to the challenges facing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gained momentum ...

The Rivers State Ministry of Agriculture has launched a free anthrax vaccination campaign for livestock across the 23 local government areas of the state.The campaign, running until February 17, aims ...

Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, officials ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

Morocco is increasingly a focus of European alliance-building and investment, including in illegally occupied Western Sahara.

The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...