In western Africa, different communities practice the religion of Voodoo, a belief system based on the idea that their ...

A massacre of more than 200 people in Haiti this month followed a gang-ordered manhunt that saw victims, many of them elderly, pulled from their homes and shot or killed ...

A lot of the people reminded me of my grandparents, the way they wore their headscarves, their mannerisms, their mentality,” ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- Benin has become the latest African nation to try to atone for its past with a new law granting citizenship ...

At airports, some shops and services offer tax refunds for tourists, a perk for those making significant purchases during ...

29, 2019 file photo, the flags of the nations of Benin and Togo, the west African homes of the survivors of the slave ship Clotilda ... (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) FILE- A man paddles a canoe ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, ...

For years, tourism in this African country has fluctuated, but that is set to change as the tourism industry for this hidden gem country is set to boom this upcoming year. For those who love the ...

Nearly 200 people have been killed in Haiti over claims of “witchcraft”. The killing spree in the capital’s coastal Cite ...

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UN has urged stemming of arms flow into the country plagued by gang violence ...