Three countries under military rule have officially left West African regional bloc Ecowas, after more than a year of ...

Lack of military coordination and tension among countries in Africa's Lake Chad region are hindering efforts to end a more than decade-long jihadist insurgency, according to local officials and ...

While the fight against IUU fishing in West Africa is far from over, efforts are beginning to yield results, and regional cooperation is paving the way for long-term solutions to protect the ...

A collective of women farmers in Ghana are aiming to break free from an economic model that has historically enriched ...

Intense clashes between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces in the country's south and west left at least 65 dead and ...

While European policymakers tout the law as a necessary step in the fight ... of African farmers. “We call ourselves Cocoa Mmaa — women in cocoa production,” she explains. “People think ...

THE renewed attacks by armed bandit groups and the intensified violence by Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa leave civilians in North-East ...

The disease they cause, known as river blindness or onchocerciasis, is one of 21 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that together affect more than 600 million people across Africa. For many of the ...

February 3, 2025 • Many Africans were caught off guard by the abrupt halt to U.S. foreign aid, stopping money flowing for wide-ranging projects like disease response, girls' education and free ...

31 (Xinhua) -- The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that the worsening humanitarian situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hampers the ...

The crisis, which the U.N. said killed 700 people this week, puts a second regional airport at risk. Congolese army fights to repel Rwanda-backed rebels in fighting that has killed some 700 people ...

The crisis, which the U.N. said killed 700 people this week, puts a second regional airport at risk. As the fighting raged on ... The central African nation’s military has been weakened after ...