West Africa

Unemployment in Africa’s largest economy surged to the second highest on a global list of countries monitored by Bloomberg. The jobless rate in Nigeria rose to 33.3% in the three months through December, according to a report published by National…

Liberia’s efforts to transform the lives of poor people have received a huge boost with financing approved by the World Bank. Two new operations will increase access to sustainable, reliable and affordable energy, and boost economic recovery by providing employment…

The Gambia Government has launched a provincial phase of rice distribution worth over 4 million Dollars to vulnerable families in the country. This comes after the capital Banjul and its surroundings benefitted a food rations from the government in collaboration…

Egypt’s  foreign minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Guinean counterpart, Ibrahim Kaba on Monday, as both leaders discussed ways for boosting relations and cooperation between both countries during the coming period. During the meeting, foreign minister Shoukry stressed that the…

A new 30 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant is due for construction near the town of Pâ, in Burkina Faso and will supply all the electricity it produces to Burkina Faso’s national power utility – La Société National D’électricité Du Burkina Faso…

A West African court has ordered Cape Verde’s government to free Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman close to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and halt plans to have him extradited to the U.S. The Economic Community of West African States Court…

Prison authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a ban on a local watchdog group over a report on a deadly prison riot that occurred last year. The riot at the main maximum security prison, the Freetown Correctional Centre, better known…

The National Child Protection Group (GNPE), which brings together UN agencies and non-governmental organizations, partners of the Government and civil society in Senegal in the field of child protection, welcomes the calls for appeasement made by all parties, following the…

Suspected gunmen have launched another attack at Damaga town in Maradun local government area of Zamafara State killing 13 persons. Eyewitnesses said the bandits on motorbikes, attacked students of the Junior Day Secondary School in the community and the panicking…

Traditional rulers in Nigeria have demanded inclusion in the membership of Council of State as they seek to assume constitutional responsibilities with the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The royal fathers also urged the National Assembly to…

Health workers in Sierra Leone will today begin the roll out of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid19 vaccine despite other countries suspending the administration of the vaccine due to safety concerns. The Sierra Leonean government said in a statement over the weekend…

A top official at the World Health Organization said that a genetic analysis of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Guinea suggests it may have been sparked by a survivor of the devastating West Africa epidemic that ended five years ago. At a…