Africa, the second-largest and second-most-populous continent globally, comprises 54 countries, each with its unique culture, ...

In the Central African Republic, peacekeeping missions are losing popular support by failing to meet people’s expectations, ...

CBN’s Emefiele: ‘The Nigerian situation is a challenging one’ says analyst In the second part of our series on the governors running the Central Banks of West Africa, we take a look at Nigeria’s ...

Seybata sits cross-legged on a worn blue mat in a sun-dappled compound in Harobanda, a neighbourhood in Niger’s capital, Niamey. Her hands deftly stitch a large calico cloth, which she and a friend ...

The slave trade began with Portuguese (and some Spanish) traders, capturing mainly West African (but some Central African) people, enslaving them and transporting them to the American colonies ...

To win the development race, investing in women and girls’ empowerment is critical to transform economies and improve people’s lives ... In Western and Central Africa, considerable progress has been ...

The scale of the food crisis is hard to comprehend. People are being affected in Central, West, and East Africa including the Sahel region and the Horn of Africa countries of Somalia, Kenya, and ...