UNITED NATIONS West Africa faces dire humanitarian consequences amidst 1,800 terrorist attacks, 4,600 deaths in 6 months Half a million people from ECOWAS countries are refugees, almost 6.2M ...

West Africa is facing its worst food crisis on record driven by conflict, drought, and the impact of the war in Ukraine on food prices and availability, aid agencies said on Tuesday.

The Africa of today is far different from the Africa of 1976 when Ebola was first discovered. Over the past four decades, the population of the continent has tripled. Forests have been cut down.

As crises multiply and the devastating conflict in Ukraine drags on, its global effects are being felt hard in the Sahel and West Africa, a region with more than 38 million people facing acute food ...

People rally in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, on Jan. 25 in support of a coup that ousted President Roch Marc Kaboré and suspended the constitution. ... West Africa faces ‘coup bloc ...

But bringing them to a wider audience faces significant obstacles. For the most part they are undecipherable to people not educated in the West African Islamic tradition — those unable to ...

GENEVA - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning of surging needs for more than 3.4 million displaced people and their hosts in the face of recent destructive flooding in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, ...

US President Donald Trump has invited the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal to Washington this week. Experts suggest that there will be more on the agenda than just ...

West African militaries are increasingly conducting operations in urban areas, Maria Lampoudi explores how they are adapting to the terrain and equipping forces Seen here at Amchidé on the border ...

She has become one of the world’s most compelling voices urging better consideration of Africa’s people — especially women, who’ve in many ways been hit hardest by COVID-19.

In many West African port cities, people purchase secondhand fast fashion items discarded by the United States and Europe, ... and then creates a new image with snippets of old faces.