GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to shift some troops to other nations in West Africa will be key issues as the top U.S.

By Elodie Toto There are only about 350 mature leopards left in West Africa, according to the latest regional assessment by ...

The U.S. military’s commander in Africa said they’re considering Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Benin as options for counter terrorism collaboration after its personnel left Niger and Chad. By Patty Nieberg ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised West African leaders a pivot from aid to trade during a White House meeting Wednesday as the region reels from the impact of sweeping U.S. aid cuts.

Much of West Africa, home to the world’s top cocoa producers, is heading into another disappointing harvest. Despite better weather than in previous seasons, structural problems — such as aging trees ...

Travis Weber is policy editor for The Washington Stand and vice president for policy and government affairs at Family Research Council. In 1900, there were an estimated 9.6 million Christians in ...

A Swiss security governance think tank has been falsely cited online as linking three-quarters of West Africa’s insecurity to ...

Three years after a California teen killed himself as a result of being “sextorted” online, authorities have arrested four men in Ivory Coast for their roles in an international scheme that targeted ...

Early on in his new book, “Custodians of Wonder,” BBC Travel writer Eliot Stein tallies some recent effects of globalization, a process that seems to only speed up. Nine languages, he notes, are lost ...