Five West African countries — Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo — established the Accra Initiative in 2017 in order to collaborate against violent extremism in the region.

While the global chocolate industry takes in an estimated $100 billion annually, many of the hundreds of thousands of West African cocoa farmers, who provide most of chocolate’s key ingredient ...

Drawing the map of West African Internet Date: February 21, 2014 Source: Institute IMDEA Networks Summary: Internet has nowadays become a booster of development.

The west African bloc set a deadline of Sunday for the coup leaders in Niger to relinquish power. ... Africa Map Shows Which Ecowas Countries Could Invade Niger. Published Aug 07, ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

West African leaders’ summit opens as coup-hit countries form alliance. The formation of Sahel alliance by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger overshadows ECOWAS summit, set to open in Abuja.