The World Bank’s latest policy note explores how Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) can be strengthened in conflict-prone areas ...

Stakeholders assert that peace in the troubled Bawku township must go hand-in-hand with economic development after decades of ethnic conflict that has claimed lives.

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African country of Burkina Faso ... and to buy enough food for her children ...

A sprawling green belt covering 2,000 hectares now encircles Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital, serving as both a barrier ...

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported ...

Chiana Pio, Pe Thomas More Ditundini Adiali Ayagtam III, Paramount Chief of the Chiana Traditional Area in the ...

At a Niamey market, mother of five Rakia Abdou haggles hard for a sack of rice, a staple out of reach for many in Niger due to record inflation. "The prices of local ...

Africa is grappling with severe food insecurity in the wake of consecutive droughts, climate change, and ongoing conflicts, which are affecting millions across the continent.

“The prices of local food are falling but those for imported products are ... But this forces thousands of trucks to make a ...

Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...