ECOWAS member state transport ministers adopted a regional plan to cut the cost of air travel in West Africa to eliminate air ...

The government is preparing to trial a medically-assisted treatment programme to help heroin users who want to quit the drug.

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

Activists are planting trees in an effort to protect disappearing forests in Mali, but residents are cutting and selling ...

Small-scale fisheries play a vital role in providing food and livelihoods for millions of people around the world, ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help about 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province as part of an official policy against illegal mining.

African leaders may have been quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his election, professing a desire for mutually beneficial partnerships, but there are meager expectations that his presidency will ...

The last three years have been tough for Fanta Charlotte Dabone, a mother of three from the conflict-battered West African ...

A committee of Guinean opposition groups, civil society organisations and activists known as the Forces Vives called on ...