Scientists are no longer treating natural hydrogen as a geological curiosity. A new wave of mapping and fieldwork suggests ...

Tension between farmers and herders has long been a fact of life in West Africa, but climate change is ramping it up.

Across many parts of Africa’s Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, ...

West African leaders meeting in Abuja have issued a sweeping communiqué that hardens the regional bloc’s stance against coups, revives momentum for a single currency, and lays out a far-reaching ...

The military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have launched a regional investment bank with an initial capital ...

West Africa correspondent Monika Pronczuk had already reported on allegations of abuses by Russians fighting jihadists as ...

Extremist groups competing for territory across West Africa could turn the region into a fluid insurgency corridor spanning ...

Instability from Latin America to the Middle East risks spreading as conflicts, proxies, and shifting alliances shape 2026.

Coups and attempted coups in West Africa, along with escalating security challenges, have left the region in a state of ...

West Africa awoke to fresh tremors on December 7, 2025, when a group of soldiers in Benin Republic briefly seized the ...

Like its neighbor Mali, Burkina Faso also witnessed two successive coups. In January 2022, Roch Kaboré was ousted by Lt. Col.