What is the situation in Africa? Where is it safe, and in which countries is the situation deteriorating? The answer lies in the Global Peace Index (GPI), published annually by the Institute for ...

The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

A new report describes the Sahel region of Africa, a million mile band that runs through Mauritania to Sudan, as "the epicenter of global terrorism." We examine those findings.

In West Africa, both the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) are coordinating their member countries’ efforts. ECOWAS held an ...

The Sahel region of Africa has become one of the world’s most volatile places, made more complex by geopolitical power plays from U.S. rivals like Russia.

ADAMANT that the Africa-Caribbean region must intentionally band together to develop and reap the “prosperity” from generative artificial intelligence (AI), The University of the West Indies ...

The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths", according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).

China pushed into sub-Saharan Africa at the start of the new century, and by 2016, it accounted for nearly 20% of the region's external public debt, according to a Reuters analysis of World Bank data.

This under-visited region of Africa is easier than ever to explore Lines are increasingly adding West Africa to their itineraries, opening up this lesser-known landscape to tourists at last ...