Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a ...

The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the bloc — now left with 12 member countries — was the culmination of a ...

A popular West African restaurant in Portland has been named one of the best in the country. Here's what you need to know ...

The bodies of four Pakistanis who drowned in the capsizing of a migrant boat off West Africa last month have been repatriated.

Forty-five people have been arrested in west Africa over the past three months in operations targeting drugs trafficking and the financing of terrorism, said global police body Interpol on Thursday.

As the self-exiled leader of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, he directed a guerrilla army in a 24-year war for independence from South African rule. By Alan Cowell Sam Nujoma ...

There, he helped establish the South West African People's Organization and was named its president in 1960. SWAPO has been Namibia's ruling party since 1990, and Nujoma ultimately led it for 47 ...