Opinion - Raheem Akingbolu, who participated a recent two-day event held in abuja to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States, writes on the need for the bloc ...

President, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, has raised the alarm over what he described as a crisis of democracy and security in the West African sub-region.

Kayode Fayemi says ECOWAS must undergo urgent reform to effectively tackle poverty, inequality, bad governance, and insecurity in West Africa.

By Desmond Davies, GNA Special Correspondent Abuja, Oct 30, GNA – Fifty years after the creation of the Economic Community of ...

Côte d’Ivoire’s political stability has entered a critical post-election phase. President Alassane Ouattara's disputed fourth term—his third consecutive re-election victory since 2010—has solidified a ...

Olivier Walther receives funding from the OECD. Andrea Apolloni and Lacey Harris-Coble do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

On Tuesday, Kevin Rideout, an American Christian missionary in the West African state of Niger, was abducted from his home in the country’s capital, as first reported by CBS News. Rideout had lived in ...

A city mosque will kick off a five-day exhibition on the connection between Islam and Black history in the United States with a panel discussion at Morgan State University. The Muslim Community ...

Bongo-Soe, explains the town’s chief, is “the end of Ghana”. No more than four kilometres of lawless scrub lies between his palace and the border with Burkina Faso (see map). Few places in the west ...

As such, Mahama’s term coincides with a new paradigm for Africa. Despite vast agricultural and mineral wealth, the continent ...

Rice University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. What began in late September as Madagascar’s student demonstrations over crippling electricity outages and water shortages quickly ...