West Africa has major gold producers like Burkina Faso, Mali, and Ghana. Togo, which borders these countries, is a key transit point for traders exporting gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars, ...

Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe, who took power on the death of his father in 2005, has emerged as a key mediator in several crises that have rocked west Africa in recent years -- while ...

For those reasons, the State Department under the provisions of the 2019 Global Fragility Act (GFA) selected five coastal West African states—Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Togo—as a ...

It is made up of three areas, each of which has its own central bank and currency: • The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) of 8 Member States: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea ...