Indian authorities have banned two highly-addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found they were fuelling ...

India’s Opioid Kings, a new documentary from the BBC World Service’s award-winning BBC Eye Investigations team, has revealed ...

An Indian pharmaceutical company is allegedly illegally producing and exporting unlicensed opioids to West Africa, fueling a ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said impartial electoral commissions and non-partisan security operatives are key to ...

The Fulani’s ancestry links to North and West Africa, the Green Sahara period, and ancient Berber groups, shaped by migration ...

Themed “Accelerating West Africa’s Sustainable Industrial Revolution for Economic Prosperity”, the event will convene market ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

Gris-gris are rooted in traditional African faiths that believe vital powers in animals and nature may be unlocked — to harm, ...

The drugs, which are highly addictive and linked to a public health crisis in countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte ...

Ukrainian defenders have captured a Russian army soldier originally from West Africa, who claims he traveled to Saratov, ...

The Drug Controller General of India has banned the production of tapentadol and carisoprodol after they were found to be ...

The cost of a daily nutritious diet in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is 110% higher than the west African region’s daily ...