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

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The ...

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

What role did West Africa and West African people play in the Atlantic world ... Bight of Benin, and West Central Africa. African empires that had expanded were threatened by revolutionary political ...

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 ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — More than 40 million people are now struggling to feed themselves across West and Central Africa with that number set to rise to 52 million by the middle of next year ...

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 ...

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 ...