One of West Africa's most iconic hiking destinations is under threat and diminishing fast due to illegal 'slash and burn' farming. Located in the Southern Koinadugu region of Sierra Leone, the Loma ...

Moo Deng, whose name means “bouncy pork”, shot to fame soon after she was born in July this year, thanks to viral videos that ...

The government in South Africa says it will not help about 4,000 miners inside an illegal closed mine in the country's North ...

Paratus Group has completed its East-West Africa fibre route, offering a fast and resilient link to anywhere in the world from anywhere in the southern African region. The Paratus East-West route, the ...

West Africa’s coastal areas are home to about one-third of the region’s people—and the population is growing 4% each year. A very large proportion, about 40%, of West Africa’s gross domestic product ...

Standing below a stump of splintered limbs, I looked up at a grey sky once filled with flourishing boughs. Torn down by a heavy storm in May 2023, Freetown’s historic 400-year-old Cotton Tree is now ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an ...

A year after that paper was published, West and Central Africa was swept by one of the worst seasonal flooding disasters on record with more than 8.5 million people affected across 20 countries ...

The United States has sanctioned a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary forces, saying he played a leading role in the ongoing ...

Analysis - The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in ...