Climate change: West African countries mark $294 billion to meet challenge

The commitment is part of a Regional Climate Strategy to set regional mitigation and adaptation targets for 2030, with a review planned for 2050, …

What’s behind hundreds of vulture deaths in Guinea-Bissau — and what can be done

More than 2,000 critically endangered Hooded Vultures are reported to have died in Guinea-Bissau since 2019. They were deliberately poisoned with …

In a first, 4 West African countries commit to cooperate on Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin

The Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin is the largest in West Africa; Four countries have now agreed to cooperate on sharing it peaceably, …

Guinea declares Ebola outbreak after 3 deaths

Four more infected; the epidemic first began in 2013 in Guinea and left more than 11,300 dead across the region

The Woman King is more than an action movie – it shines a light on the women warriors of Benin

For some African feminists, African women have never been frail and defenceless

Flooding in Nigeria is on the rise – good forecasts, drains and risk maps are urgently needed

As the 2023 flooding approaches, it is important for federal government and state agencies to work in coordination

Child labour on farms in Africa: It’s important to make a distinction between what’s harmful, and what isn’t

Reframing the debate about child labour in African agriculture, and how best to address it, is particularly timely

West Africa's chimpanzee population impacted by road construction: Study

The average population density of chimpanzee was lowest nearest the roads and peaked at the far away from them

One-third of Africa's tropical plant species are on the verge of extinction

A large part of western Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo could lose 40 per cent of their trees, shrubs, herbs and …

Why low-fee private schools are struggling to take root in rural Nigeria

It's unusual for children in Nigeria's rural areas to have any access to private schooling, even if it's of the low-cost variety. They must rely …

Deforestation increases frequency of thunderstorms locally in West Africa: Study

Study shows storm frequency has doubled in the region in 30 years

Ebola outbreak nears an end, but stigmas remain

The epidemic has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa

Child slavery in West Africa: Understanding cocoa farming is key to ending the practice

Surveys and studies on child slavery in West African cocoa farming have failed to consider its causes

WHO sounds alarm on India-made cough syrups linked to children’s death in The Gambia 

Consuming the products leads to ‘active kidney injuries’ in children, said WHO director-general

Large quartz dust particles found in the middle of the North Atlantic

The mere existence of these particles at this location cannot be explained by conventional climate change models

Most expensive disaster in 2022: Hurricane Ian caused losses and damages worth $100bn, says report

Floods in Pakistan, west and southern Africa and drought in Europe also feature in the list of 2022’s most expensive disasters

Significant increase in rainfall in north, central Africa: Study

Almost all regions of the continent, except the south and east, showed a significant increase in annual rainfall from 1983 to 2020    

Coup in Gabon: Ali Bongo the eighth west African leader to be ousted by military in two years

The coup appears to have brought an end to Bongo family’s 55-year hold on power in the country

More humans means less Great Apes, says first pan-African assessment

Agriculture, linear infrastructure, population density and even GDP and corruption influence Great Ape densities in Africa

African countries differ widely in prenatal HIV testing: why it matters

Closing the gaps in coverage of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa will require, among other things, a massive investment in health systems in …

Lassa fever kills 41 in Nigeria

The first case of the viral disease in the country was reported in November 2015

Ebola spreads to the West, authorities struggle to control it

Health care professionals in Spain, Norway and the US are being treated

Nigeria becomes second country to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine

After Ghana, Nigeria’s approval of malaria vaccine will help world achieve WHO goal of reducing malaria cases, deaths by 90% by 2030

Climate change: West Africa’s oceans at risk because of a lack of monitoring

Communities are left blind to climate effect; can't take measures to adapt themselves 

Ghana reports first-ever suspected cases of Marburg virus disease

Second time the disease with high fatality rate has been detected in western Africa; WHO confirmation awaited