Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The Times, covering 25 countries including Nigeria, Congo, the countries in ...

Scientists have made a key breakthrough in treating respiratory diseases by developing a new drug delivery system that ...

Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, is marked by the traditional slaughter of a sheep to commemorate the willingness ...

A plume of dust from the Sahara desert has been traveling across the Atlantic Ocean making its way to the United States over ...

Security experts have cautioned the Nigerian government and the national security agencies not to ignore the recent alarm ...

Islamist militants hit two more military installations on Wednesday and Thursday, Mali's army said, the latest in a quick spate of attacks that the insurgents say have killed hundreds of soldiers and ...

Ghana has endorsed Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara as the sole basis for solving the long-standing dispute, aligning with a growing number of countries supporting Morocco. Following talks ...

Donald Trump’s decision to bar the citizens of a dozen countries from entering the United States is his most sweeping visa ban yet.

Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the framework of the UN, aligning itself with a growing number of Western, ...

Military staff increasingly concerned about rising sea levels, droughts and floods, according to EU commissioner ...

With a new wave of renegotiations of mining licenses and stricter regulations, how are African countries, particularly in West Africa, leveraging their vast mineral reserves to assert control and ...

Without a renewed push to secure new African assets—and without addressing technical, commercial, and political ...