West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong ...

Maps showing it distort reality – but some risks are real ANALYSIS | BRENDON J. CANNON | Global power dynamics in Africa are ...

Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make ...

was named after the region of Guinea in West Africa because the gold used to produce it came from there. On opposite sides of the Congo River lie two countries named after it: the Democratic ...

In fact, most west African countries that have significant gold ... like the reliance on subjective judgement to create reliable maps and the need to spend money prospecting in areas with low ...

After Jordan and Egypt rejected the relocation of Palestinians to their countries, some African territories are now under potential consideration.

Trump initially proposed Egypt and Jordan as destinations, but both countries have strongly rejected the idea. Some African countries ... a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip ...

More than the ongoing trade between the two continents that had run for decades, though, the Europeans wanted direct control of Africa’s natural resources. In addition, these countries aimed to ...

The ship, where a BBC team recently spent a week on board off the coast of Ghana, has been doing this specialised repair work for the last 13 years "Because of me, countries stay connected," Shuru ...