Christians in Nigeria face ongoing Islamist violence this Easter. One expert is urging the U.S. to label Nigeria a "country ...

A dramatic decline in cocoa production owing to bad weather and disease in West Africa caused prices to skyrocket.

COTONOU - Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM said it killed 70 soldiers in raids on two military posts in north Benin, the biggest death count claimed by jihadists in the country in over a decade of activity in ...

A West African country, embroiled in a brutal civil war until 2003, has the smallest army on the entire continent as it plots a route to continued peace. Liberia, one of the only African states to ...

Costing an estimated £11.3bn in total, the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project will enable faster and more ...

attacked a Christian farming community in the north-central part of the country, the latest in an increasing wave of violence in the West African country. President Bola Tinubu also said he has ...

DENVER (AP) — A man accused of torturing people suspected in a planned coup against Gambia’s longtime leader was a low-ranking private in the West African country’s military who risked ...

A trial is underway in Denver, focused on torture in the West African country of The Gambia. The defendant, Michael Sang Correa, is charged with multiple counts of torture two decades ago.

West African bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday expressed "deep concern" over a row between Algeria and its southern neighbour Mali. On Monday, the two countries closed their airspace to each others ...