Despite the bitter exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS and their formation of the rival AES, the destinies of the two blocs remain deeply intertwined.The split between the Economic ...

Dongobada seems to exist only on social media – specifically Facebook and X – and as a writer for outlets across ...

Comptroller-general of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, has made a strong case for deeper unity and cooperation among Customs administrations within the West and Central Africa ...

U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that could block International Monetary Fund support for some Central African ...

Extensive research and analysis show that personal networks of trust are central to political and economic activity across West Africa, in contrast to formal institutional and contractual ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. More than 5 million people in 16 countries in West and Central Africa have been impacted ...

Musa was asleep in the village of Dusuman in northeast Nigeria when he was awoken by a sharp burst of gunfire and Boko Haram stole his main source of livelihood -- his livestock. "They came at ...

CBN’s Emefiele: ‘The Nigerian situation is a challenging one’ says analyst In the second part of our series on the governors running the Central Banks of West Africa, we take a look at Nigeria’s ...

Such reforms are breaking barriers and allowing women and girls to realize their full potential. In Western and Central Africa, considerable progress has been made in promoting girls’ education, ...

Its splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), instead prefers to impose taxes on local livestock farmers, said Nigerian GI-TOC researcher Kingsley Madueke. In the central ...