Democracy in West Africa is regressing due to poor governance and bad leadership, providing excuses for military coups, ...

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

Indian authorities have banned two highly-addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found they were fuelling ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said impartial electoral commissions and non-partisan security operatives are key to ...

The Fulani’s ancestry links to North and West Africa, the Green Sahara period, and ancient Berber groups, shaped by migration ...

India’s Opioid Kings, a new documentary from the BBC World Service’s award-winning BBC Eye Investigations team, has revealed ...

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Themed “Accelerating West Africa’s Sustainable Industrial Revolution for Economic Prosperity”, the event will convene market ...

President Vladimir Putin hosted Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo for talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire, which earned its reputation as ...