Mastercard has opened its first office in Accra, Ghana, expanding its operations in West Africa. This strategic milestone demonstrates Mastercard’s commitment to helping the country’s ...

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West Africa is on the cusp of a transformative industrial revolution as multi-billion dollar investments pour into the region, signaling a renewed focus on economic diversification and ...

The expansion of the fleet comes at a critical time. The global terrorism index recently described the Sahel region of west Africa as the new epicentre of terrorism. Security analysts Samuel ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...

Women's cricket in Africa is strongest in the south of the continent, and there are pockets of growth and progress in the east. But now, for the first time, the west will have a presence at a ...

Chatham House convening and research focuses on social norms and anti-corruption programming in Nigeria; cross-border conflict and smuggling across West Africa as part of the XCEPT research programme; ...

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about a centenary of diamond prospecting and mining along the West Coast of South Africa and the legends that shaped the ...

"I never killed anyone," he added. Stories like Bassie's abound in Sierra Leone, a small nation in West Africa with more than 300km of coastline sandwiched between Guinea and Liberia. The country ...