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

Nearly eight years ago, President Donald Trump denied using the word “shitholes” to describe African countries during an Oval ...

It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim ...

Islamist JNIM fighters have surrounded Mali's capital Bamako, blocking fuel supplies as the West African nation faces ...

Some West African nations have introduced laws granting citizenship to members of the African diaspora as part of broader efforts toward reconciliation, recognition, and reconnection. These policies ...

Saharan Africa rose by 4.3% between 2023 and 2024, according to the World Bank’s latest annual report on debt in developing ...

Nigeria, the African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday swiftly condemned an attempted military takeover in the Benin Republic, which saw soldiers briefly ...

Namibia just elected its first female president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, but before Namibia, many African countries had elected female leaders. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female ...

Africa is rapidly becoming a major growth market for Indian startups, with platforms like Leverage Edu, QueueBuster, and SUN ...

Nearly eight years later, President Trump confirmed during a Pennsylvania rally that he referred to Haiti and some African ...

The world's friendliest countries were determined by a new report from digital financial services company Remitly. The company surveyed 3,000 participants from 27 countries on the "agreeableness" ...