Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be ...

As Africa’s Sahel region has replaced the Middle East as the epicenter of jihadism, young men are flocking to the cause. They ...

Less than a third of Niger's vast territory has internet access, so the west African country is betting on satellite broadband to bridge the digital divide in remote rural areas.

At a time when Africa is convulsed by various threats and American interests could be at risk, United States influence is in ...

Every person, by nature, is afraid of something. This is how the self-preservation mechanism works. Fear of the dark, heights ...

Listeners swayed as the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam sang from a stage on the banks of the Niger River at an ...

Having redeployed some soldiers previously stationed in Syria to Libya, the Russian army and its military-political entity ...

Now there is no public support for sending any more troops to Africa even if they are requested by beleaguered African governments. Those African political crises have been a regular feature of ...

The Sahel's delicate grasslands, for instance, are rapidly giving way to desert shrubs. On a global scale, economic losses ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Armed assailants in western Niger killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush on a military unit that had been sent to hunt cattle rustlers in a border region near Burkina ...