Nigeria is one of the few nations among the roughly 190 countries in the world that fought a civil war — an internal armed conflict — in order to preserve its territorial unity and remain one ...

In 2017, five men found the third largest diamond ever unearthed in West Africa ...

A new creek looked almost empty at first, with only horseshoes, axe heads, and scraps coming out of the ground. Then he finds ...

The daughter and niece of Samuel K. Doe and Charles Taylor, respectively, traded accusations on social media this week over competing accounts of their fathers' roles in Liberia's civil war, with ...

Nine migrants deported from the United States have landed in Sierra Leone, according to the country's ministry of information.

Today I am saddened, a sadness one can only feel after losing a friend of 30 years. Gary Schulze died yesterday in his native ...

The private world of one of Africa's most powerful political women is revealed in a BBC World Service exclusive.

They come in blister packs of 10 like any normal painkiller and you can buy them easily in roadside kiosks and street pharmacies across west Africa.

A leading UK Ebola expert has warned Britain must keep a 'watchful eye' on travellers from central Africa as the deadly strain spreads with no vaccine or cure.

While Many in Sierra Leone are struggling to put food on their table and cope with the daily grind of electricity power cuts that is crippling the nation’s ...

Idris Elba’s body doesn’t know when he’s acting. After summoning tears or rage, incarnating the trauma of characters like the ...

The debacle began when the New York Times published a piece suggesting that there is “a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual ...