The tiny Comoros Islands, Mali, Zambia and Zimbabwe added their names on Friday to the list teams who have qualified for next year’s 24-team Africa Cup of Nations but four-time champions Ghana were ...

ECOWAS member state transport ministers adopted a regional plan to cut the cost of air travel in West Africa to eliminate air ...

In several African countries, where cheap housing remains a concern for a rising urban population, the price-to-rent ratio ...

African heads of state and government are calling for the continent’s vast natural capital to be considered when measuring the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of their countries. In a communique adopted ...

Nigeria is set to join other West African countries to adopt a unified driver’s license and vehicle registration system as part of a regional effort to streamline transportation and enhance road ...

Rights groups now fear that the overt hostility that L.G.B.T.Q. people have faced in other West and Cental African countries is taking root in Ivory Coast. “Ivory Coast was an oasis of peace for ...

“West African countries are actively modernising their mining sectors,” explains Vinneth Bajaj, senior mining analyst at GlobalData. “They are enacting comprehensive laws and regulations to govern ...

Here in the forbidding geography of the Caucasus — surrounded by Russia, Turkey and Iran — is a small, plucky country that saw itself as part of the West. European Union flags flew in front of ...

These reforms led Barrick CEO Mark Bristow to issue a warning to the West African country: “Be careful you don’t compromise the benefits to Mali by taking too much…” In a conference call with analysts ...

An African country has been revealed as the country with the lowest literacy rate, with just over one in four people being literate. According to World of Statistics on Twitter, Chad has the ...