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Mama Diop and Ngeunar Ndiaye both score twice as Senegal comfortably beat DR Congo 4-0 at the 2024 Women's Africa Cup of ...

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Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.

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The West African subregion is in dire need of winning strategies and formulas that have the potential to turn around its socioeconomic fortunes for the better and that lofty height can only be ...

I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too ...

Plans for a $6 billion futuristic city in Senegal, envisioned by U.S.-born singer Akon and inspired by the fictional Wakanda ...

US President Donald Trump ’s meeting next week with African leaders from several seemingly disparate countries is focused on ...

General strike in Ramallah governorate of West Bank sparked by settler killings of Palestinians; teachers and council workers in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria continue stoppage over minimum wage ...

For all the ambition that has long swirled around regional integration in West Africa, the reality has remained underwhelming. Trade among ECOWAS member states still lags just below 10%. In an era ...