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Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally withdrawn from the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, the body said Wednesday.

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.

In a dream, a mysterious voice calls out in the night to King Alantako, warning of "chaos" ahead for the young Nigerian ...

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 ...

Niger’s defense minister says the junta-led West African countries of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali have created a joint force that will soon be deployed in the restive Sahel region to face rising extr ...