As Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 41,000 people, nears one year, assaults in the occupied West Bank ...

and the Into Africa podcast West Africa is a region marked by considerable opportunity and recurrent challenges. Anchored by Nigeria, West Africa is a source of cultural innovation and an attractive ...

Parts of the Sahara Desert have seen 600 percent of the average rainfall in the past 30 days, causing extreme floods.

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains ... the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west. Famous human-made landmarks include ...

Mansa Musa had put Mali and himself on the map, quite literally ... little known outside West Africa. "History is written by victors," according to Britain's World War II Prime Minister Winston ...

West Africa faces more heavy rains this week after flooding in a region that’s seen at least 2.3 million people displaced by ...

The takeover also stamped the start of a political ripple in the wider West Africa region that has since seen other civilian governments fall. “We largely saw civilian rule strengthening in ...

The world map we see today has grown through the efforts of many explorers who have charted new boundaries, continually ...

Launched at the beginning of August, the pilot phase of a project to set up an interoperable instant payment system marked a revolution in financial transactions within the West African Economic ...

Although I didn't see the Africa I expected, some of what I saw affected me deeply. Just off Senegal's coast on Gorée Island, once the world's largest ... on the tourist map are the same.

On thinking about history as a linear narrative, teaching the Classics, the Greeks and the Romans, and anarchic politics in ...