West Africa

African nations have been reminded of the need to develop strategies to address climate change, which poses an existential threat to the continent’s megacities, Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba said at the third Africa Climate Week conference. President Bongo said…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), The Gambia Bureau, on Wednesday launched an emergency food assistance programme targeting people affected by the recent floods. Driven by torrential rains in late July 2022, the flooding has mainly hit the suburbs…

A nun who was abducted last April in Burkina Faso has been released by her captors.  The information was confirmed in a statement from the bishop of the city of Kaya, in the north-central region. Sister Suellen Tennyson, an American…

Liberia’s Revenue Authority says there is a huge possibility of the country recording an annual revenue collection from 786 million US dollars to about a billion US dollars. Commissioner General-designate Thomas Doe Nah speaking before the Senate’s committee on Ways,…

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, has announced its support on the health front in localities plagued by terrorists. MINUSMA says it will deliver 1.5 tons of essential medicines to Gao every week. According to the UN…

International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday says the number of missing children is on the rise on the continent. In a statement released on the eve of this year's International Day of Missing Persons, the organization reports that there…

Nigeria’s state oil firm, NNPC, has accused government officials, religious leaders, security agencies and even some staff of the nation’s crude oil theft. Speaking during the 49th session of the weekly ministerial briefly at the State House in Abuja, Head…

In Ghana, Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology are challenging the decision by management of the school to suspend executives of the various halls of residency at the university. The suspension follows the bloody clashes between…

Members of the House of Representatives of Liberia are concerned about the alarming land conflicts facing the country over the last few years. Land conflicts according to the lawmakers is grossly undermining the peace and stability of the country hence…

Ghana’s Roads and Highways Minister , Kwesi Amoako Atta, says the country's precarious financial situation has made it difficult for his ministry to fix the many deplorable roads in the country.  Taking his turn before Parliament's Government Assurances Committee, Kwesi…

Liberia's government is calling on the Omani government to halt the issuance of visas to Liberian job seekers for domestic work in Oman. Speaking during a zoom meeting with Humaid Al Maani, Head of Global Affairs Department at the Foreign…

The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC says Nigeria has Africa’s largest number of missing people with about 25,000, out of which 14,000 are children. Head of Delegation, International Committee for the Red Cross, Nigeria, Yann Bonzon, reeled out…