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 ...

"West Africa stands at a transformational juncture from energy resilience and digital finance to food security and regional trade." At the GTR West Africa 2025 Summit, the mood across panels and ...

Celebrations marking 50 years of the Economic Community of West African States - known as Ecowas - began in Ghana this week, but the mood was far from jubilant. The region's main political and ...

Digital payments gateway Peach Payments has agreed to acquire West-African payment platform PayDunya. In the process, it enters mainland Francophone Africa for the first time, following its ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Next month, the Sebé Kan West African Dance and Music concert returns to the Newmark Theater. We sat down with the founder of the dance company to learn more about the ...

Ecowas was born in Lagos on 28 May, 1975 with the goal of bringing West African nations closer together. Five decades later, that ambition is facing its toughest test yet. The anniversary ...

The upcoming Mining in Motion (MIM) 2025 Summit – taking place from June 2-4 in Accra, Ghana – will feature the participation of Adama Soro, Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States ...

The first presentation of its kind, New African Masquerades offers a rare look into contemporary West African masquerade by contextualizing the works of individual artists within a range of social ...

At the just-concluded GTR West Africa 2025 Conference in Lagos (April 24–25), policymakers, financiers and business leaders converged to reassess West Africa’s position in an increasingly ...

The West Africa Container Terminal, located at Onne Port in Rivers State, has been named the Most Outstanding Terminal Operator of the Year 2024 at the 27th edition of the Maritime Industry Merit ...