West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms and empires. The earliest of these kingdoms belonged to the Nok people. They were farmers, potters and metalworkers who settled near the River ...

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Wednesday announced the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso ...

By the 15th century Portugal was comparable to many kingdoms in Africa ... a journey of nearly 8,000 km from Portugal, down the West African coast, arriving at the mouth of the River Congo.

Jonathan Reynolds, the UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade, announced today the appointment of Ben Coleman as the United Kingdom’s Trade Envoy to Morocco and West Africa. This announcement ...