West Africa

Three women out of the 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested on July 10 at Bamako airport were officially released this Saturday evening, as a humanitarian gesture on the part of the Malian authorities, according to the Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs,…

Heavy rains in Niger  accompanied by a violent wind on Saturday night to Sunday morning in Toudoun Aggoua, a village in the rural community of Tirmini in Niger Republic, haslled two girls and one boy while seven other people were…

In Senegal, medical doctors under the payroll of the government have commenced a 48-hour strike across the country, against the arrest of a gynecologist and two others following the death of a mother and her baby last week in Kedougou…

The minority in Ghana's Parliament is calling for the prosecution of management and board members of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund over the decision to invest 2 million dollars in the botched Accra Sky Train project.  The Auditor General in…

Members of the House of Representatives in Liberia on Tuesday concurred with the Senate over the conduct of the National Population and Housing Census to be held from October 24 to November 7, 2022.  This is the fifth census to…

A group of Liberians under the banner “We the People,” are expected to take to the streets of Monrovia today, to thank the United States government for imposing sanctions on three ranking officials of the George Weah Administration. The group’s…

There are calls for the introduction of a levy in the National Health Insurance Structure in Ghana to cater for some of the costs of operations of the country’s national ambulance service.  It comes on the back of a proposal…

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, and the State Public Health Emergency Operations have launched an electronic data tool aimed at supporting surveillance and response in the country's health system. NCDC Director General, Ifedayo Adetifa, said the Data Analytic…

In Senegal, Three health workers have been arrested in the Southeastern town of Kedougou, after a pregnant woman and her baby died from a botched cesarean section. The incident is the latest in a string of maternal mortality tragedies in…

A U.N. monitoring committee is urging Benin Republic to address alleged discrimination against minority and marginalized groups.  The committee released findings this week on progress in seven countries whose records were under review. Abdullahi Hassan reports:

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…