Recurrent coups since 2020 and the decision by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) reveal the region’s deep governance and democracy ...

Together, they formed the Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, signaling the West African region’s commitment to cooperation and solidarity. These early efforts at Pan-Africanism paved the way for the ...

President Ruto last week took his time to lay the ground for Mr Odinga's campaigns in West African nations, holding talks with Senegal President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on the sidelines of the 79th ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, three Francophone West African countries under military rule, have made a dramatic geopolitical shift by establishing the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a new ...

A manhunt is underway after 17 people living on the same street in a South African village were killed in a mass shooting, police said Saturday. Two homes were targeted in the shootings early ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...

Mostly women and children were on board a wooden vessel that capsized in Mokwa in the country’s Niger State. The country’s highest food inflation levels in decades have pushed businesses to ...

government representatives from 13 countries attended the 20th Regional IHL Seminar for Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Island States co-hosted with DIRCO. trained 100 in-person African scientists ...

The UNESCO Chairs and Partners Forum Transforming Knowledge for Africa’s Future, convened 30 September - 2 October 2024, aims to strengthen interdisciplinary and collaborative research capacity in ...

South Africa secured their first Rugby Championship title for five years - and just a second since 2009 - with a dominant 48-7 victory over Argentina in Nelspruit. Full-back Aphelele Fassi (two ...

October 1, 2024 • Rwanda is dealing with its first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus. It's related to Ebola and has a mortality rate as high as 88%. What do disease experts say about the global ...