Learn how a West African excavation shows that early humans lived in multiple ecosystems simultaneously, challenging our ...

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

Democracy in West Africa is regressing due to poor governance and bad leadership, providing excuses for military coups, ...

Indian authorities have banned two highly-addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found they were fuelling ...

India’s Opioid Kings, a new documentary from the BBC World Service’s award-winning BBC Eye Investigations team, has revealed ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said impartial electoral commissions and non-partisan security operatives are key to ...

The Fulani’s ancestry links to North and West Africa, the Green Sahara period, and ancient Berber groups, shaped by migration ...

Themed “Accelerating West Africa’s Sustainable Industrial Revolution for Economic Prosperity”, the event will convene market ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

In September, the Nigerian government made an important change to its food fortification program to date — a set of standards ...