African traditional leaders commit to community-driven action to prevent gender-based violence at a high-level conference in ...

African traditional and cultural leaders, policymakers, and development partners convened in Lagos on Monday to develop a coordinated strategy to combat gender-based violence across the continent, ...

A yearslong effort to convince the Trump administration that Christians are persecuted in the West African nation has shifted ...

The new Phillis Wheatley Forever stamp was designed by USPS art director Antonio Alcalá using an existing black-and-white ink-on-paper portrait by artist Kerry James Marshall. Her image draws from the ...

Following US military strikes on Christmas Day, Under Secretary of State Allison Hooker visited Abuja on 22 January for the first meeting of the US-Nigeria Working Group established in response to ...

On the eve of this historic conference, we say to funders and practitioners addressing GBV: let's scale up efforts to leverage the power of faith and traditional leaders to stop violence before it ...

Gambia's Supreme Court is considering whether a law protecting women and girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) is constitutional. The practice, common in Gambia, often involves forcibly ...

A yearslong effort to convince Washington of religious persecution is shifting foreign policy toward the West African nation, ...

Leaders of West African states have agreed to establish a permanent and structured framework for regional cooperation to ...

NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ghana – the first by an Indian leader in more than three decades – put resources, trade, and security cooperation at the center of a renewed ...

Positive news about LDS Church growth in Africa is hardly surprising nowadays, but some rarely seen stats reveal the breadth and depth of the faith's expansion.

As religious sisters and others respond on the front lines, communities across Africa bear the cost of global delays on ...