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

An Indian drug maker tells a BBC undercover team its addictive cocktail drug is “very harmful” but “this is business”.

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

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

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

Chinese refiners have stepped up purchases of Brazilian and West African crude as they reorganise sourcing around sanctions ...

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

The illegal trade of lion and leopard parts is growing in Senegal and threatening the lion's survival across West Africa.

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

Ristvedt and her husband, Eric, worked at the hospital in Sierra Leone named after her grandfather, Dr. Lowell Gess.

"I want customers to feel like they traveled somewhere in West Africa and they’re really eating the way they would’ve eaten ...

An Indian pharmaceutical company is manufacturing unlicensed, highly addictive opioids and exporting them illegally to West Africa where they are driving a major public health crisis in countries ...