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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The president of Burkina Faso's mines chamber said on Monday extra measures would be taken to increase security and help to avoid further suspensions after Russia's Nordgold shut down a gold mine in the insurgent-hit country earlier this month.

DAKAR (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Tuesday it has signed deals to finance four projects in Senegal worth a total of $495 million to help improve education, electricity, economic development and road access to rural areas. The West African nation of around 16.7 million, considered lower-middle-income by the World Bank, was hit hard by border closures during the pandemic that affected tourism and delayed oil and gas extractions. Most of the coastal country was struggling with unemployment ev...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Operational costs of the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) will increase by $136 million in West Africa this year because o...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Operational costs of the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) will increase by $136 million in West Africa this year because of the global rise in food and fuel prices driven by the war in Ukraine, the agency said on Thursday.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi tabled his resignation and that of his government on Wednesday, President Alassane Ouattara said during a cabinet meeting during which he accepted the resignation.

DAKAR (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Tuesday it has signed deals to finance four projects in Senegal worth a total of $495 million to help improve...

ABIDJAN — Rain was below average in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions last week, with more downpours needed to strengthen the April-to-September…

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's former president, Alpha Conde, ousted in a military coup in September, returned to the country on Friday after a trip to ...

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's former president, Alpha Conde, ousted in a military coup in September, returned to the country on Friday after a trip to ...

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's former president, Alpha Conde, ousted in a military coup in September, returned to the country on Friday after a trip to ...