Global Affairs Canada has pledged C$20 million to empower women traders in Ghana and five other West African countries through the Making Trade Work for Women in West Africa project. The Making Trade ...

This network not only enhances regional energy integration and cooperation, but it also completes the regional West African Power Pool grid with interconnections across 14 member countries. All four ...

Eight years later the west African country may indeed move beyond aid—just not in the way it hoped. The post-cold-war era of Western help for Africa is over. The obliteration of the United ...

Moreover, eight ECOWAS countries, largely francophone, are already members of a currency union—Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. These members of the ...

In fact, most west African countries that have significant gold deposits have close to 50% of their landmass on the craton. Notably, between 35% and 45% of Ghana, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire’s ...