The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on archival ...

Paris plans to keep around 100 troops in Ivory Coast on the southern coast of West Africa, down from 600 troops today, and ...

Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west.

In this view, early humans bypassed West and Central Africa, especially tropical forests. These areas, the argument went, ...

As food prices rise, more than two out of three households in West and Central Africa cannot afford healthy diets. Local non-profits, farmers, and small and medium enterprises are working together ...

This chapter focuses on regions under formal Portuguese control in Angola to analyze slaving and resistance to slaving in Central Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It first provides ...

Parts of Central and West Africa have seen heavy flooding over an unusually intense rainy season, unleashing a humanitarian ...

Flooding caused by the rain has devastated cities and towns across west and central Africa in recent days, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed.

Fifteen countries in West Africa have agreed to adopt a single ... union will have a specific inflation rate as one of its central goals It looks extremely unlikely that all 15 countries will ...

Would strong regional central banks or even a continental central bank have helped? The regional experience of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gives a glimpse of what is needed ...