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The United Kingdom has added Nigeria to its red list category as it tightens travel restrictions in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 variant, Omicron. This means Nigerians who do not have UK citizenship or residence permit…
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has criticized the travel bans issued against some African countries because of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus. He described the bans as instruments of immigration control. President Akufo-Addo was speaking when he addressed a joint…
Senegal has recorded its first case of the omicron variant, becoming the third West African nation to detect the new coronavirus variant after Nigeria and Ghana. The announcement was made by the Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training…
The government of Liberia is calling on striking University lecturers to return to classes. Lecturers at the State-run University of Liberia announced an indefinite go-slow after the government reportedly refused to implement an existing MOU entered into between the lecturers,…
Armed men on Saturday released some 65 members of the Baptist church and others who were kidnapped in Kaduna State North-Western Nigeria. The victims were kidnapped on October 31 when the bandits invaded the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji in…
The Coalition of Commercial Transport Owners has announced its intention to embark on a nationwide indefinite strike beginning Monday, November 6 as part of measures to compel the government to scrap some taxes on fuel to enable reduction at the…
In Nigeria, the army on Saturday said there was no need to panic after explosions rocked some communities in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. In a statement signed by spokesperson Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu, the army described the attack as a…
Suspected jihadists in Mali killed at least 30 civilians in an attack on a passenger vehicle in the volatile central town of Mopti, local officials said Saturday. An elected official in Bandiagara confirmed the death toll, saying the victims included…
Hundreds of women marched in Abidjan on Saturday to protest violence against women and to demand punishment for rapists. Under the slogan "Orange the world", and organized by the UN Women's Generation Equality, women in Ivory Coast and around the…
Three Gambian opposition presidential candidates have disputed the results of Saturday’s presidential election. They promised at a news conference on Sunday to challenge the results in court. Adolphus Mawolo reports from Banjul.
The leadership of Parliament in Ghana has set up a 20-member committee to resolve problems surrounding the 2022 budget. This follows parliament’s heated proceedings earlier this week over the proposed budget. Atiewin Mbillah-Lawson has more details in this report from…
The 2021 African Economic conference with the theme Financing Africa’s post Covid19 development is underway in Cape Verde. The African Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Africa, and the United Nations Development Programme jointly organize the 3-day event that began…
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