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Heads of state across West Africa are meeting on Saturday to discuss the region’s challenges. The summit of the 15-nation regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja ...
May 2, 2024 at 11:28 AM. US troops have been helping West African nations fight an Islamist insurgency [AFP] The US is still engaged with Niger and Chad, despite withdrawing troops from the ...
January 28, 2024 at 9:50 AM. By Boureima Balima and Tiemoko Diallo. NIAMEY/BAMAKO (Reuters) -Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, three West African states led by the military, said on Sunday they are ...
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa.The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).
The History of West Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the period of major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and finally the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed. West Africa is west of an imagined north–south axis lying close to 10° east longitude, bordered by the ...
French West Africa ( French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali ), French Guinea (now Guinea ), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso ), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger. The federation existed from 1895 until 1958.
West Africa recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences, and a top regional official said Tuesday ...
The West Africa Cable System ( WACS) is a submarine communications cable linking South Africa with the United Kingdom along the west coast of Africa that was constructed by Alcatel-Lucent. The cable consists of four fibre pairs [1] and is 14,530 km in length, linking from Yzerfontein in the Western Cape of South Africa to London in the United ...