Mistrust between AES and ECOWAS countries must be overcome to enable intelligence sharing and security cooperation. On 8 January, members of the violent extremist Group for the Support of Islam ...

To see how your meal plans might be affected, check out this interactive map showing the ... while West Africa provides much of our coffee and rice. The study also included an interactive look ...

This study maps the counties left in the dark and reveals ... For example, states in the Northeast and West had lower percentages of monitoring deserts. By contrast, states in the mountain regions ...

The discovery, which Burrowes presented earlier this year in a talk at the Library of Congress, has electrified historians who study slavery ... An 1830 map of the West African coast, including ...

Despite its current crisis, Ecowas can look back on successes in integration, peace and security, and good governance.

A World Bank study finds that fewer than 10% of West African microenterprises belong to business associations, which ...

For several centuries, West Africa has experienced mental, social, political and spiritual upheavals that have shaped its ...

Young West African ‘catfish’ scammers have turned cyber-fraud into a cornerstone of transnational crime by recycling age-old scams for the social media age. We investigate. “I can go three days ...

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 ...

But here’s the problem: in a region where malnutrition and diet-related illnesses are growing threats, understanding what’s ...

These, combined with specific cultural practices like scarification, have given the impression that their ancestors came to West Africa from ... The genetic study of the Fulani tells us more ...

She visited Fann hospital in Dakar, where neurologist Dr. Pedro Rodriguez measured her lung capacity. He suspects Mariama had ...