Nearly a year without a hearing, the prolonged confinement of a Togolese poet exposes how pretrial detention is being weaponised to silence dissenting voices.

Some 30 people - most of them soldiers - have been jailed in Benin in connection with a failed coup attempt earlier this ...

Months ago, during a stuffy and hot weekday morning in Shenzhen, I was informed that I would be assigned to a city in West Africa that I had never heard of before. Although its name sounds very ...

On January 10, 2025, a father, an entrepreneur and a poet, Honoré Sitsopé Sokpor, poured his heart out in a poem he published ...

At the 7th edition of the Hospitality Awards Africa 2025, Mrs . Ekua Zara Ghartey-Tsagli, Head of Marketing at Labadi Beach ...

Togo this week inaugurated its first carrier-neutral data center in the capital city of Lomé. Built on a plot measuring more than one hectare, the Lomé Data Center has 400 sqm (4,300 sq ft) of ...

Critically endangered animals are being advertised for sale as bushmeat on TikTok, a new study finds. The work, published ...

Across many parts of Africa’s Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, ...

The African hospitality industry turned its spotlight on Ekua Zara Ghartey-Tsagli, Head of Marketing at Labadi Beach Hotel, ...