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

The history nerds will know that it has not taken this long for Nigeria, a British colony from 1851-1954, to embrace the sport of empire. It is because cricket has been played there since the early ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 (Reuters) - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage ... bureau chief for West & Central Africa.

The global terrorism index recently described the Sahel region of west ... world, further shows that Nigeria (61) is behind Egypt (491), Algeria (183) and Morocco (89), but ahead of South Africa ...

one area remains as “Africa’s last colony”, leaving a black hole in global data. Western Sahara is effectively no mans land. It often appears un-labelled on world maps. Moreover, GDP ...

Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map ... Africa, a weekly newsletter that keeps you in the loop about the world’s youngest ...

The Sahel region of Africa, between the Sahara and the tropical savannahs to the south, has emerged as a significant ... state in the Sahel region of west Africa include mutually reinforcing ...

Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have ... but in the fringe battles in Africa, where Allied forces fought in the then-German ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...