West Africa Nations West Africa nations are racing ahead of their Central African counterparts in deepening economic integration and slashing red tape to open up regional business opportunities, a private equity fund manager said. Patrice Backer, chief operating officer for Advanced Finance and Investment Group (AFIG), said his $72 million fund was invested in finance, …
West Africa: Total 301,587,669 Country Population Map Capital City Benin 9,800,000 Benin Map Porto-Novo, Cotonou Burkina Faso 16,200,000 Burkina Faso Map Ouagadougou Cape Verde 500,000 Cape Verde Map Praia Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 22,000,000 Ivory Coast Map Yamoussoukro, Abidjan Gambia, The 1,800,000 see: Senegal Map Banjul …
West Africa Benin, Burkina, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo West Africa is a very diverse region. It has desert landscapes and also the tropical rain forest of the more humid south. The mainly Muslim populations of the Saharan countries have a variety of …
History of the region: colonialism West Africa has a long history as it has been settled for nearly fifteen thousand years. The first humans to come to the area had migrated from the eastern part of Africa as they needed to expand the area in which they were hunting and gathering. These were the first …
