NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu continues his journey along West Africa's most ambitious urban corridor. In Togo, he meets the Nana Benz — icons of past prosperity in a region where opportunity is shifting.

LOME, Togo (AP) – Women in the civil rights group “Let’s Save Togo” said they will have a week long sex strike to demand the resignation of President Faure Gnassingbe. The plan for women to withhold ...

Sometimes, a book can have a life-changing impact. For Payton McGriff, that turned out to be true. McGriff was a sophomore at the University of Idaho when she read Half the Sky, which examines the ...

LOME, Togo (AP) — Women in the civil rights group “Let’s Save Togo” said they will have a week long sex strike to demand the resignation of President Faure Gnassingbé. The plan to withhold sex from ...

The region of Western Africa comprises countries including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali ...

Ghana’s Black Maidens will begin their 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifying campaign in April against Togo, marking ...

Two Nigerian ladies who were trafficked for prostitution managed to escape and tell their sad ordeal. The ladies, Franca Akhimen, 25, and Ehinon Onofua, 23, both from Edo State, according to them, ...