Analysis - The challenge will be translating the country's rich mineral resources and promising economy into stability and development.

When we spoke with Salif Keita before the Pandemic, he told us, not for the first time, that he was ready to retire from recording and performing. Not long afterwards, he released what he said would ...

Gold prices are on track to soar, and African countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast stand to gain, as they rely heavily on this mineral. JP Morgan, in a report released April 22, 2025, ...

PREMIUM TIMES reports that the three junta-led countries made their official exit from ECOWAS earlier in the year.

The climate crisis is fuelling illnesses such as malaria, cholera and dengue, causing food insecurity, malnutrition, ...

The international police agency Interpol says that police raids have rescued 33 West Africans from a human trafficking ring ...

The ECOWAS Council of Ministers will hold an Extraordinary Session from April 22 to 23, 2025, in Accra to discuss the withdrawal ...

Curators and museum officials collaborated with the men who made the spectacular masquerades. "We thought, ‘Let's work with ...

BCEAO has ended its special accounting treatment for Niger’s government bonds, effective April 15, 2025. This move threatens banks in the West African Monetary Union (WAMU), many of which are heavily ...

Artistic Innovations and Collaborations' presents the work of four artists who create ensembles for masquerading societies in ...

Four decades ago a 34-year-old army captain from Burkina Faso stood before the UN General Assembly and demanded a new world order. The speech, which was watched eagerly by young people across west ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading Nigerian priest has praised President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso for making a strong statement in favor of religious freedom. Traore recently declared that ...