Small-scale fisheries play a vital role in providing food and livelihoods for millions of people around the world, ...

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

Focusing on climate finance, the decisions to be taken at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in ...

The two-day event was aimed at sparking critical conversations about the future of museum practice in West Africa. Guests engaged with prominent thought leaders such as Prof. Chika Okeke-Agulu, Robert ...

In Equatorial Guinea, where 82-year-old President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled since seizing power in a coup in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Africa has about 25.9 million (65%) of the global burden with Nigeria contributing about 1.9 million making it the fourth ...

A middle-aged Iowa resident who recently traveled to West Africa has died from Lassa fever, state health officials confirmed Monday. "I want to assure Iowans that the risk of transmission is ...

and at a time when West Africa struggles with surging terrorism. The officials said the mediation was difficult due to the lack of trust between the parties, but that Ankara hoped for good news in ...

West Africa is a major gold mining hub, yet the region faces a myriad of challenges. Credit: Pact. Global gold prices are surging, surpassing $2,700/oz this month, already up by more than a fifth ...

KAZAN, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday closed a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, praising its role as a counterbalance to what he called the West’s ...