Paul Raffaele The plight of Uganda's young sanctuary-seeking "night commuters" (at a Gulu public school guarded by Ugandan Army soldiers) has received scant attention in the West. Paul Raffaele ...

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 ...

ATHENS, - West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last decade and a half, West Africa’s reputation as a credible destination to look out for has risen in popularity. Propelled by culture-shifting triggers like afrobeats, sports ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said that illicit financial flows cost Africa a whopping $88.6 billion yearly. Abdel-Fatau Musah, the ECOWAS commissioner for political ...

Millions of people around the world live with rare diseases, most of them caused by a misstep in their genes. Some conditions ...

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 there’s another region now steadily staking its claim to a place on this list: step forward West Africa, where a growing number of operators are now setting sail to less-travelled shores.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AFP) — West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Thursday condemned an attack by suspected jihadists which killed 54 troops in northern Benin as a “barbaric and cowardly act”.

Nigeria’s Ambassador to ECOWAS, Musa Nuhu, has lamented the challenges faced by West African countries, particularly in the communications and banking sectors. He emphasised that it should be ...