Faith and traditional leaders are powerful, yet overlooked, allies. Learn why their influence is essential to preventing and ...

As the world prepares to commemorate the Feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita on February 7, an extraordinary movement against ...

A recent Vatican document on marriage revives troubling assumptions about Africa and polygamy. Sr. Leonida Katunge asks: Why ...

Cuban religion known as Santería have offered gifts to deities and asked for peace as tensions rise between the United States and Cuba and the island braces for more economic difficulties.

In one of the largest mass abductions targeting religious worship centers in the West African nation in recent months, the ...

AFRICOM signals a more fluid, intel-heavy model designed to dismantle jihadist networks while navigating unofficial relations ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

One footballer tells The Athletic about his dream that Western Sahara could one day feature as a nation on the game's global ...

COMMENTARY: A journey across Eastern and Southern Africa revealed the Gospel lived with freshness and zeal — a sign of where the global Church is heading.

The quest for an authentic spiritual heritage has led some Black Christian women down a dangerous path. By the time Day Sibley decided to embrace Ifa, a divination practice from the Yoruba people of ...

Four West African nations are banning visa access to U.S. citizens in response to President Trump’s travel ban to 39 different countries. The development comes as Trump expanded the travel ban enacted ...

In 2026, the sub-region should dispel some of the uncertainty hanging over its future. Yes, the economies of Guinea, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire are set to shift into a different league once the first ...