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.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Lack of military coordination and tension among countries in Africa's Lake Chad region are hindering efforts to end a more ...

The end of French military presence in Chad, as was announced by Chadian President Mahamat Deby last week, marks the end of over 120 years of French ...

Business Wire India • Merck Foundation marks World Cancer Day with African First Ladies by providing 194 scholarships of Oncology ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

International donors, the UN, Sudan’s warring parties and their allies must act now to prevent even more avoidable deaths from malnutrition in Sudan, as the already catastrophic situation is expected ...

Home to one of the most diverse and vibrant people in the world, this landlocked country covers nearly 500,000 square miles ...

The 5th edition of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum has re-echoed its commitment to advancing stabilisation, recovery, ...

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s paramilitary, Janjaweed fighters have been accused of killing tens of thousands of people in Sudan’s Darfur region.

Prime minister, Mr. Allah Maye receiving Professor KamaludeenProfessor Kamil Kayode Kamaludeen, the outgoing Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Chad, ...