These waves begin off the coast of West Africa in the Sahara desert. About 83% of major hurricanes in North America originate from Cape Verde, a coastal country in West Africa.

Finance chiefs of G20 countries were close to agreeing a common position on trade and other global challenges on Friday, ...

Islamist militants are increasing their activity in West Africa despite the establishment of a regional force to combat them in the Sahel region, and they are now threatening coastal countries ...

Tettey and Addo agree that eventually people will have to be relocated from coastal areas, which are home to a quarter of the country’s population. But they acknowledge there will be fierce resistance ...

Insurgents are expanding from West Africa’s Sahel region toward Atlantic coastal nations such as Ivory Coast, creating new terrorism hot spots and displacing millions.