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

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

An Indian drug maker tells a BBC undercover team its addictive cocktail drug is “very harmful” but “this is business”.

West African gold producer Orezone Gold has announced a bought deal offering with Canaccord Genuity to raise C$35m ($24.5m).

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

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

Ukrainian defenders have captured a Russian army soldier originally from West Africa, who claims he traveled to Saratov, ...

The cost of a daily nutritious diet in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is 110% higher than the west African region’s daily ...

Gris-gris are rooted in traditional African faiths that believe vital powers in animals and nature may be unlocked — to harm, ...

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

"I want customers to feel like they traveled somewhere in West Africa and they’re really eating the way they would’ve eaten ...

Ristvedt and her husband, Eric, worked at the hospital in Sierra Leone named after her grandfather, Dr. Lowell Gess.