Unregulated sexual stimulants are flooding West Africa, posing major health risks that officials are scrambling to address.

Tokyo needs to talk to more than just governments.

Charges against Choguel Maiga comes as the military intensifies a crackdown on dissent in the West African country.

It's the time of year for Cape Verde hurricanes. The legendary storms, named after islands off Africa’s west coast, can take ...

A surge in cybercrime has put West Africa in the spotlight, with online scams in Nigeria raising growing concern ...

Six suspected Boko Haram members, including Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, son of the late founder of the Boko Haram terrorist sect, ...

West Pack Lifestyle is slowly expanding its store base after escaping business rescue earlier this year—but it has a whole ...

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BBC News Pidgin has officially launched its TikTok channel. The TikTok channel aims to deliver high-quality journalism to ...

Fresh damning revelations have exposed how Nigeria’s Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, secretly ...

On a recent evening in Senegal‘s capital of Dakar, an imam named Ibrahima Diane explained to a group of men why they should ...

Rwanda, Eswatini, and South Sudan are among the poorest nations in the world, with per capita incomes just a tiny fraction of ...