On the last day of 2024, here are the hard realities from the year gone by, and the opportunities and challenges that the new ...

Ivory Coast is home to the biggest remaining contingent of French troops in West Africa. There are some 600 French military ...

Ivory Coast says that French troops will leave the country starting January 2025, becoming the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonial power.

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Tuesday that French forces would withdraw from the West African nation, ...

The Parabats were first “blooded” in combat in 1966 during a counterinsurgency war in South West Africa (known nowadays ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) today is up +56 (+0.49%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) is up +29 (+0.32%). Cocoa prices today ...

An unprecedented explosion of conflicts has carved a trail of death and destruction across Africa—yet gone largely unnoticed ...

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world's poorest people.

According to Karenga, the name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning ‘first fruits.’ First ...

The federal government has reiterated its dedication to fostering peace and stability in West Africa, expressing deep concern over recent ...

The Federal Republic of Nigeria through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reaffirmed its commitment to peace, stability, ...

The 21st century has seen the two most compelling ideologies of the 1990s malfunction horrendously. These are neo-liberalism, the belief that, overall, markets are more efficient than governments in ...