West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong ...

The widening divergence between Europe and the United States (US) under President Donald Trump appears to be rendering the notion of the collective ‘West’ obsolete. That could have important ...

Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire, which earned its reputation as ...

Chatham House convening and research focuses on social norms and anti-corruption programming in Nigeria; cross-border conflict and smuggling across West Africa as part of the XCEPT research programme; ...

Carlo Allegri/Reuters The West needs to pay close attention to how they react to African countries' silence on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and avoid seeming patronizing and dismissive to ...