After years of serving as Mali's minister of the environment, Aida M'bo now spends her time planting trees in a fight to protect the environment ...

Microfinance has become essential for giving unbanked people access to financial services. However, the rise in unpaid loans is threatening the stability of many institutions, especially in fragile ...

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.

The offer comes after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended a BRICS summit in Kazan, hosted by Russian President ...

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, ...

The remaining United Nations mission in Mali will start leaving on Friday to bring an end to the 11-year-old peacekeeping mission that helped the country fight militants seeking to control parts of ...

Report also refers to Israel ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’ and running ‘apartheid system’ in West Bank ...

Chad Posthumus, a centre for the Winnipeg Sea Bears, is in critical condition after undergoing surgery for a brain aneurysm, ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...

Undi and Sinclair’s works were selected from 1,529 nominated books. Fourteen Governor General’s Literary Awards were given in ...