Highlights: • Ghana lost $11.4 billion to gold smuggling from artisanal mining between 2019 and 2023, Swissaid reports. • Smugglers reroute undeclared gold through Togo, Burkina Faso, and Mali, mainly ...

Highlights: • World Bank urges Niger to boost irrigation as climate shocks threaten food security. • Just 2% of farmland is irrigated, yet it produces a third of Niger’s agricultural GDP. • Niger ...