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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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