Air travel within West Africa remains the most expensive globally, posing a major challenge to regional integration, according to the Economic Community of West African States. This was disclosed ...

US deepwater driller Valaris has been awarded a contract in West Africa for five firm wells plus options for one of its drillships currently working in Brazil. The company said on Monday the ...

PRAIA, Cabo Verde — West African countries are adapting their interdiction strategies as drug traffickers and other criminals turn to sophisticated technology to evade detection, U.S. officials ...

Credit: PEJDC – Youth Employment and Skills Development Project. Childcare services are critical to empowering women, reducing poverty, and promoting equitable development in West Africa. Despite ...

A showdown with Barrick Gold in Mali, audits of oil contracts in Senegal, the CFA franc denounced – after the rhetoric, the economic reality in West Africa is delivering mixed results. The Boulevard ...

Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote and South African telecoms giant MTN once again top the list, but Brand Africa founder ...

Geneva — A senior researcher for the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) says West Africa is experiencing a severe food and nutrition crisis, and insufficient funding is worsening the ...

Since the eighties, West African communities have boomed in the Houston area; Harris County has the largest Nigerian population in the U.S., according to the 2020 Census. And where there are ...

Five candidates are running to become President of the African Development Bank in an election on Thursday during the ...

The Kwara State Government has unveiled a 70-meter flagpole, describing it as the tallest in the West African region to make a bold declaration of identity and pride. The State Commissioner for ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three years after a California teenager died by suicide, four men in West Africa have been arrested on suspicion of participating in “international sextortion scheme ...

This infrastructure is now interconnected with the West African Power Pool (WAPP), significantly enhancing regional power integration. Since late November 2023, all 14 continental West African ...