Why ex-bank boss Tidjane Thiam has been barred from seeking the Ivorian presidency - and the potential fallout.

West Africa is facing a sharp erosion of press freedom, according to the 2025 global rankings by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The RSF report, released in early May, also reflected a worsening ...

The 45-year-old midwife is one of 28 women from the west African country who underwent the procedure last month in a public ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye seeks to attract $1.7 billion of investments to build digital infrastructure and ...

Former Credit Suisse boss Tidjane Thiam is to run for president in Ivory Coast's forthcoming election, his party has confirmed. Thiam, 62, was the only candidate vying to represent the country's main ...

Moving back to Ivory Coast in 2022 after more than two decades ... In Liberia in 2023 and in Senegal and Ghana last year, incumbent governments were voted out, in free and fair elections whose ...

Abramowicz, one of the only women working in the field in France, has trained 10 surgeons from six French-speaking African countries - Guinea, Benin, Senegal, Chad, Togo and Ivory Coast.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Police raids have rescued 33 West Africans from a human trafficking ring in Ivory Coast that lured people into paying fees and providing coerced labor by promising them ...

Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi has been voted the top African player in Ligue 1 after helping his club win the ...