Nigeria's Golden Eaglets will not participate in the expanded 2025 U17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) taking place in Morocco, according to CAF ...

Analysis - The military-led nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger officially withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) on January 29. They had announced their intention to ...

Lived poverty varies widely across the continent in extent, intensity, and trajectory. For example, over the past decade, severe material deprivation has fallen in Liberia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gabon, ...

The Economic Community of West African States announced recently that the three-member nations where coup plotters overthrew elected governments had finally exited the community. Issues related to ...

At least 10 soldiers were killed by armed assailants in an ambush in western Nigeria, near Burkina Faso's border. The attack ...

February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - a practice deemed a gross ...

The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups ...

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have arrested two suspects for allegedly trafficking a 16-year-old girl to Burkina Faso for ...

Vista Bank, a digital-first Nigerian lender, has received regulatory approval from France’s Prudential Supervisory Authority ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

According to CAF’s competition calendar, the CHAN 2024 finals will be held from February 1 to 28 in the cities of Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Nairobi, and Kampala. THE draw for the finals of the African ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...