November 9, 2025

Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has dismissed a request from the Minority Caucus to suspend the vetting of Chief Justice nominee, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie. Addressing Parliament on Friday, November 7, the Speaker ruled that neither constitutional provisions nor parliamentary…

Defense ministers from Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso are moving closer to launching a unified military force under the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On Friday, Niger’s President Abdourahamane Tiani met with the three ministers to finalize arrangements for the…

Schools across Mali are set to resume classes on Monday, November 10, after a two-week suspension prompted by the nationwide fuel shortage. The Ministry of National Education confirmed the reopening in a statement on Thursday, maintaining the academic schedule outlined…

Burkina Faso’s transitional authorities have introduced a new monthly ritual to honor the late Thomas Sankara, assassinated on October 15, 1987. Under the directive, a military officer will stand guard at the Sankara Memorial in Ouagadougou every first Thursday of…

The Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled November 20, 2025, for the trial of detained IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, who faces terrorism-related charges. Justice James Omotosho fixed the new date on Friday after Kanu failed to present his defence…

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Friday received Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, granting him full presidential honors on arrival. President Bio, who also chairs ECOWAS, shared on his X platform that he is…

Liberia’s Asset Recovery and Property Retrieval Taskforce has wrapped up months of investigations into two major corruption cases, uncovering schemes that allegedly diverted millions of dollars in public funds. The first case involves former Chief of Protocol Nora Finda Bundoo,…

In Côte d’Ivoire, the opposition PPA-CI party of former president Laurent Gbagbo has announced that it will not take part in the December 27, 2025 parliamentary elections. The withdrawal was confirmed in a statement issued on November 6, following a…