THE government has lifted the ban on the trade and transportation of agricultural products between Tanzania and the countries of Malawi and South Africa, following a restriction that lasted two days.

M to modernize transport in Grand-Nokoué and serve up to 360,000 users Project to professionalize informal operators and boost job creation Part of Benin’s $9.7B multimodal transport strategy through ...

Parakou, Benin’s third-largest city, pulses with life in the northern Borgou Department. With over 200,000 residents, it’s a crossroads for trade, connecting farmers from the cotton-rich plains—which ...

The Yaa Ansaa Royal Family, the hereditary custodians of the historic Akwamu Kingdom (also known as Aquambo), are going to ...

From roughly 1600 to 1900, the Kingdom of Dahomey carved out a powerful position in West Africa and a unique place on the ...

Sister Lisette Capo-Chichi, Pediatrician, Director of the Sainte Elisabeth de la Trinité Humanitarian Health Center in Abomey-Calavi, Southern Benin ... occurred in Africa, where WHO says ...

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person ...

SIMON MAINA/AFP Africa's trade prospects have dimmed in the face of rising global protectionism, with new tariffs from the United States and escalating trade policy uncertainty threatening to stall ...

M ati Diop’s “fantasy-documentary” Dahomey helps us sift through cultural exploitation by Hollywood, Broadway, and other centers of political instruction. Theodor Adorno, of the Marxist Frankfurt ...

Below, five African adventures—from the deep jungles of Congo to the museums of Benin—that take you far beyond the savanna.

Crackdown on peaceful labor march and arrest of the union's leadership in Benin draws condemnation.The 2025 International Workers' Day celebrations in Benin were disrupted after the police stormed a ...

The construction of the US$95 million African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) African Trade Centre (HAATC) in Harare, which is set for completion by October, is being hailed as a significant ...