Sub-Saharan African central banks that have added gold to their reserves in recent years could face price and liquidity ...

The U.N. food agency’s regional head says Nigeria is facing “an unprecedented hunger crisis,” and the need for food is rising ...

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says it is ready to welcome stablecoin firms, provided they comply with ...

Copper was highly valued and thus a popular material for currencies in West Africa. West African communities created copper bars of varying shapes and sizes to use in general and specific types of ...

Manillas were regularly used in exchange in West Africa, especially along the coast of modern-day Nigeria, from at least the fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Cast from various metals, ...

By Joshua Worlasi AMLANUThe Bank of Ghana is seeking to strengthen its currency forecasting and management systems, amid rising demand for physical cash and parallel growth of digital ...

The military-led governments of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso plan to channel part of their revenues into a new investment ...

Since 2022, France has pulled its soldiers from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Chad ended its security pact with France in ...

Twenty-nine managers from The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone received hands-on training this month to ...

The French military completed its withdrawal from Senegal on Thursday, the last West African country where it maintained a permanent troop presence, amid waning regional influence in recent years ...

Buoyed by patriotic fervour and compassion to see that West Africa evolves as a major economic bloc within the continent and beyond, stakeholders who converged at the inaugural West Africa ...