West Africa has been selected for this semester’s international theme at Missouri Southern State University. MSSU has been holding its international semester since 1997, and it has become a core ...

Findings show clear signs of non-European ancestry of buried individuals with affinity to present-day groups living in ...

An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa ...

Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of ...

But between the Roman era and the first sustained arrival of Africans, most enslaved, during the Tudor era (early 16th ...

U.S. top military brass have warned of a growing threat of Mexican drug cartels in Africa, with West Africa emerging as a ...

NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ghana – the first by an Indian leader in more than three decades – put ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has rewritten our understanding of early medieval England, revealing that two individuals buried in seventh-century cemeteries had recent West African ancesto ...

More than 1,300 years ago, a boy and a girl were buried on two sides of England’s south coast. Today, their DNA reveals they both had West African roots, a surprising find that suggests early medieval ...

Scandals surrounding the International Criminal Court (ICC) have increasingly drawn public scrutiny. In recent months, ...

Nigeria has continued to offer the cheapest electricity tariffs in West Africa, even as it shoulders a growing subsidy burden ...

The government of Africa's biggest economy has tried for months to negotiate a U.S. trade deal but failed to reach agreement ...