Back by popular demand, get ready for the third annual Women of West Africa Entrepreneurship edition, the WOWe Festival 2015. The WOWe Festival 2015 brings a completely new and superior experience for ...

Guinea has seen nearly 4,400 hectares (about 10,900 acres) of reforestation across 43 villages since 2021 under a project led by Switzerland-based arboRise Foundation, which employs hundreds of women ...

Mobile Creche in Manga, Burkina Faso. Credit: PEJDC – Youth Employment and Skills Development Project. Childcare services are critical to empowering women, reducing poverty, and promoting equitable ...

Lagos’ Prostate Clinic has successfully carried out West Africa’s first robotic gynaecological surgery, removing ovarian tumours from a 30-year-old woman ...

FREETOWN/ MONROVIA, Nov 30 (UNHCR) - Barely emerging from years of civil conflict, two countries in West Africa are waging a new war - a battle to eradicate all forms of violence against women. Last ...

NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu continues his journey along West Africa's most ambitious urban corridor. In Togo, he meets the Nana Benz — icons of past prosperity in a region where opportunity is shifting.

African traditional and cultural leaders, government officials and development partners have gathered in Lagos to strengthen coordinated action to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) across the ...