West Africa

Togo's Government has declared a state of security emergency in the Savannah region. In a decree was adopted on Monday during the 13th Council of Ministers meeting. Abdulahi Hassan reports

Gunmen have reportedly abducted the Bishop of the Anglican Communion, Jebba Diocese, Kwara State, Rev Oluwaseun Aderogba, his wife and their driver in Nigeria's South West region of Oyo State. The three were abducted over the weekend at an isolated…

The United Nations (UN) Security Council says it is examining, the extension of the stay of blue helmets in Mali. During a meeting on Monday, the UN's envoy to Mali feared a terrorist attack against the town of Ménaka, in…

Local authorities in Cameroon on Thursday announced that separatists in the southwest attacked and burned a district hospital. According to the officials, the incident on the night of Wednesday through Thursday morning took place in the Manyu department in the…

The Liberian Senate committee probing the constant power outages at the Roberts International Airport, today, Thursday made public some of its findings. The investigation was instituted after two major airlines—Royal Air Morac and SN Brussels aborted landing at the Airport…

The Burkinabe government says lifeless bodies of all eight missing miners at the Perkoa site in the Sanguié province have been found. The government in a statement said the search for the miners ended on Wednesday after 54 days of…

At least thirty-two people were reportedly killed by bandits in separate attacks on four communities within Kajuru Local Government Area in the northcentral state of Kaduna, Nigeria. As Tofik Abdul Nasir reports, the affected communities are Ungwan Gamu, Dogon Noma,…

Nigeria’s National Security Council, NSC has blamed the recent attack of the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, in southwest Ondo State, on the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola made the disclosure on Thursday…

At least two people including a soldier were killed Thursday morning at a Gold mining site in northern Burkina Faso. Sources say the assailants attacked the karma industrial mine in the early hours shooting sporadically into the air. Imoh Edet gives…

Two Ghanaian medical practitioners on the Brussels-Accra flight received a standing ovation after they saved a Frenchman who was dying from heart attack.  The two doctors involved in the life-saving situation on June 7, 2022 were Dr. Charles Ababio and…

Armed Forces of Liberia operating in central Liberia—Bong County, along with joint security forces, have burnt down what was seen to be the major drug hub in the region. Speaking to journalists during the raid, the Deputy regional Police Commander…

UN Resident Coordinator Babatunde Ahonsi in Sierra Leone calls for inter-party dialogue as political violence intensifies in the country. This followed series of political violence that swept through Bendugu Town in the Tonkolili district of Sierra Leone last week, where…