Nearly 16,000 people born in Western African countries live in Rhode Island, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Data released in September.

ABUJA, Nigeria — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS said Saturday that it is lifting travel and economic sanctions imposed on Niger that were aimed at reversing last year’s coup in ...

At the end of September, Burkina Faso experienced its second coup of the year. A military putsch in the West African nation brought down the prevailing junta and made 34-year-old Capt. Ibrahim ...

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been chosen to be the next chairman of the West African economic bloc, ECOWAS ...

In Gold Fields' Tarkwa mine in Ghana, a high-tech cat-and-mouse game is playing out with increasing frequency as record gold ...

In West Africa, the model for Russian military assistance is Mali, where an estimated 1,000 mercenaries from Wagner Group arrived early last year, soon engaging in combat with Islamist militia ...

Democracy declined for 8th straight year around the globe, institute finds. ... which is one of a growing list of West African countries where the military has taken power, ...

In this excerpt from Eliot Stein's 'Custodians of Wonder,' a writer travels to West African to find an 800-year-old instrument called the ... Balla Kouyaté Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images.