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August 18, 2025

NewsLink 2025- 08- 18 Fourth Edition

•More than 40 people missing following vehicle accident in Nigeria’s Sokoto state •Ghanaian nurses and midwives protest over 8-months of unpaid salaries •Burkina Faso expels UN Systems coordinator over allege false report •MALI military junta marks five years in power

NewsLink 2025- 08- 18 Third Edition

•More than 40 people missing following vehicle accient in Nigeria’s Sokoto state •Ghaianian nurses and midwives protest for over 8-months unpaid salaries •Burkina Faso expels UN Systems coordinator over allege false report •MALI military junta marks five years in power

NewsLink 2025-08-18 Second Edition

•Nigeria Captures Two of Its Most Wanted Militants in Key Counterterrorism Operation •One Person reported dead and scores missing after passenger bus plunges into Benin’s Ouémé river •Burkina Faso to repatriate remains of activist Alino Faso who died while in…

Challenges in the Health System- The Burden of Underfunding

Health experts across West Africa are raising the alarm over persistent underfunding and structural weaknesses in national health systems. Despite growing disease burdens—including neglected tropical diseases and emerging epidemics—many countries in the region continue to operate with inadequate budgets, outdated…

NewsLink 2025- 08- 18 First Edition

•Nigeria Captures Two of Its Most Wanted Militants in Key Counterterrorism Operation •One Person reported dead and scores missing after passenger bus plunges into Benin’s Ouémé river •Burkina Faso to repatriate remains of activist Alino Faso who died while in…

Bus plunges into Ouémé river, 44 passengers missing

Tragedy struck in Benin’s Collines Department on Sunday, August 17, when a passenger bus plunged into the Ouémé River. The bus, operated by a foreign company, was carrying fifty-four people at the time of the accident. According to Interior Minister…

Burkina Faso to repatriate activist Alino Faso’s body

The Burkinabè government has confirmed that the body of activist Alain Christophe Traoré, widely known as Alino Faso, will be repatriated on Monday afternoon. His remains are expected to arrive at Ouagadougou International Airport at 2 p.m., where a government…

Ghana’s AG defends suspension of Chief Justice Torkornoo

Ghana’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has dismissed appeals from the Bar Council of England and Wales and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association to reinstate suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo. Dr. Ayine stressed that the suspension is…