The three Sahelian states' split from ECOWAS is reducing security cooperation at a time when West Africa is battling numerous ...

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

Countries strive to enhance their competitiveness in attracting investments, especially foreign direct investments (FDIs), which involve a foreign investor engaging in economic activity in ...

However, in recent decades, Africa's relationship with the global system has begun to shift, and China has been a key ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

U.S.A.I.D. The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is ... and humanitarian aid on the scale the West has done in the past, experts say.

Experts have raised concerns as Nigeria’s and Africa’s development aspirations are under threat from the twin challenges of political instability and climate change. They stressed that the continent ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reinforced its commitment to tackling the pressing security, economic, and political ... to ensuring that West Africa continues to ...

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

“Political processes, electoral processes, leadership decision making processes and positions, have been so commercialised in Africa, such that they’re no longer about representation. It’s ...

For his part, Prof. Jega highlighted persistent challenges limiting democratic development in West Africa. “Political interference in the appointment (and/or removal) of electoral commissioners ...