Guinea-Bissau, where there are virtually no art galleries, no art schools and little government funding for the arts, has ...

West African countries are adapting their interdiction strategies as drug traffickers and other criminals turn to ...

The call to prayer echoed across the arid town, the voice of the muezzin crackling over battered loudspeakers atop the mosque minarets. In a place where sandstorms often ...

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When you glance at a map of West Africa, one border stands out as unusually narrow and oddly shaped — The Gambia. It’s often ...

“West Coast gas can industrialise South Africa as coal did 80 years ago,” says Human. He pleads for much more urgency around the exploration and development of the West Coast gas fields.

and innovate across borders. Ambassador Razaaly underlined the strategic importance of Ghana in this vision, stating, “Ghana is a vital hub of academic and intellectual talent in West Africa and ...

The Economic Community of West African states (Ecowas) is set to mark 50 years in May 2025. It was established in 1975 by 16 member states. Though seven of the founding leaders had ascended to ...

These scams, mostly orchestrated from West Africa by young men aged 15 to 35, thrive on a sense of impunity. The scammers indulge in “bara love” (romance scams) and now even “bara star” – pretending ...

Work on a solar energy and battery storage project in Senegal, touted to be the biggest in West Africa once it goes live, is set to begin next month after an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and ...

Scams of this type are increasingly common in West Africa and police forces across the region have conducted mass raids in the past, including the arrest of over 300 people in 2024. Interpol ...