#west africa

- American Capital Energy & Infrastructure ("ACEI") announced today that it has committed to invest up to $130 ...

Indonesian Vice President Boediono is attending the 9th World Islamic Economic Forum held here, scheduled for October ...

- The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) announced today $3 million in new support for cocoa improvement projects in Africa, ...

Last weekend`s visit of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Nigeria as part of his tour of Liberia, Saudi Arabia ...

- Wison Engineering services. Co. Ltd. ("Wison Engineering"or the "Company"), the largest private sector chemical ...

Islamists have destroyed the tomb of a Muslim saint in a northern Mali region under their control, two months after ...

Jihadists occupying northern Mali on Thursday said they had cut off the hand of a thief in accordance with strict ...

-       New cases at lowest levels ever, but funding gap threatens ...

A car bombing near a church in northern Nigeria on Easter Sunday killed at least 20 people and put the country on ...

Life in Mali`s capital slowly returned to normal on Sunday after most mutinous soldiers returned to their barracks, ...

A 400-pound adult male gorilla escaped his cage at the Buffalo Zoo on Monday, biting a female zookeeper before being ...

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday met Nigeria`s Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru as the UN expressed fears about ...

Southern Europe will be gripped by fierce heatwaves, drought in North Africa will be more common, and small island ...

Pirates seized an oil tanker with over 20 crew off the coast of Nigeria, an official of the International Maritime ...

Pirates have hijacked an Italian owned ship in Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin in West Africa, a regional ...