From surprising collaborations to unexpected releases, this month's best music list is culled from Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire. As Nigerian electronic music surges, a new wave of ...

Divergent regional seasonal forecasts, a conflict-driven baseline of food insecurity affecting over 50 million people, and a sharp reduction in humanitarian funding make anticipatory, ...

Powerful messages are appearing on billboards across Ghana as thousands of young Catholics from across West Africa gather in Accra this week. For the organisers of the first-ever West Africa Youth ...

The 2026 West African Youth Days (JOAJ) open on September 7, in Accra, Ghana. Over the following four days, young Catholics from 16 West African countries will come together around the theme: “Take ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

Simon Essah walks through his cocoa farm in southwest Ghana, pointing to trees scarred by black pod disease, the latest in a series of threats plaguing his crop this year. The upcoming harvest will ...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that shows the continent as much bigger than it is on conventional world maps ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly backed a resolution aimed at changing the way Africa and other regions are represented on world maps. The "Correct the Map" ...

The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is. By 164 votes to ...

The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map ...

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is. By John Yoon The United Nations General Assembly on ...

Two years ago, Nigerian pastor Jerry Eze arrived in London to lead a prayer conference at Twickenham — the world’s largest rugby stadium — and immediately wondered whether he had picked the wrong ...