Nujoma was seen as the last of a generation of African figures who headed anti-colonial movements and fought for freedom.

Study published in Nature pushes back the known evidence of human habitation in rainforests by over 80,000 years.

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

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union (EU) have jointly launched a project aimed at ...

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

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

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said impartial electoral commissions and non-partisan security operatives are key to ...

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

The illegal trade of lion and leopard parts is growing in Senegal and threatening the lion's survival across West Africa.

The Fulani’s ancestry links to North and West Africa, the Green Sahara period, and ancient Berber groups, shaped by migration ...

Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire, which earned its reputation as ...