Adele Koue Sungbeu, a 45-year-old midwife from Ivory Coast, is among 28 women who recently underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the effects of female genital mutilation (FGM). The procedure, ...

On this humid April day, hundreds of fans have risen from their grandstand seats, yelling with voices scratched raw from four ...

It is not surprising that global multinational media like the BBC, CNN, France 24, Fox, NBC News, Al Jazeera, Reuters and AFP ...

Adele Koue Sungbeu underwent female genital mutilation as a teenager but now holds her head up high and smiles broadly as she ...

They also were forced to help scam others with the same promise of finding a job abroad by taking photos of themselves ... Victims were from Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo and Ghana.

When Pope Francis was elected as the first Latin American pontiff, he said his brother cardinals went out of their way to ...

In the aftermath of Pope Francis’ death, many Africans on the continent and in the diaspora wondered if the Catholic Church would, for a change, elect a Black Pope. Well, they got one in Pope Leo XIV ...

This attack marks another deadly chapter for Benin, a West African country of approximately ... claimed it had killed 70 soldiers and published photos of seized weapons and ammunition, according ...

The President of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) has underscored the urgent need for peace and ...