West Africa’s coastal nations are bracing for deadly floods from their northern neighbors to sweep south, but money is tight and they face double jeopardy from rain as the wet season sets in ...

Justice Malala is a political commentator and former editor of South Africa's This Day. He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New ...

Ivory Coast is the latest country in West Africa to ask French troops to leave for good. It follows similar decisions by Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal and Chad. We analyse France's shrinking ...

Cocoa prices today are soaring on crop production concerns in West Africa. Some Ivory Coast and Nigerian cocoa farmers reported that cocoa trees are beginning to suffer the effects of the ...

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw its troops from the West African country. Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960 ...

much of Africa is battling economic stagnation and double-digit inflation rates. Ivory Coast, a country of 31m people in the continent’s west, is a rare exception. Devastated by two civil wars ...

While faced with this blow to regional unity, West Africa is also poised to start work on a 1,028km (689 miles) highway from Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan - through Ghana, Togo and Benin - to ...