The West African Container Terminal located in Onne River State has concluded plans to increase its tariff with effect from April 1, 2025.WACT announced this in a notice sighted by The PUNCH on Sunday ...

West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet.

A new archaeological discovery challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians ...

Niger has quit an international force fighting armed Islamist groups in West Africa's Lake Chad region as it seeks to shore up security around oil assets at home, the government said in a bulletin on ...

West African gold explorer Many Peaks Minerals has made a very strong start to 2025 thanks to exploration success in Cote d’Ivoire.

The March 29, 2025, partial solar eclipse dazzled skywatchers across North America and Europe. Here are the best photos of ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from haramata, a word in the Ghanaian language Fanti. The wind originates from ...

Each night, throughout Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, families gather, neighbors share food freely and communities come ...

A groundbreaking initiative could soon be bringing surgeons closer to patients in Africa's remote corners where the doctor-to-patients ratio is among the lowest in the world.

Hydroacoustic signals captured by the world's international nuclear monitoring system suggest an underwater landslide may ...