West Africa

The Ghana Education Service, GES, has invited the National Investigations Bureau, NIB, to probe allegations of corruption in this year’s Senior High School placement processes. Some officers of the GES and the Ministry of Education have been accused of taking…

Ghana’s government says recent power outages being experienced in the country is not a return of load shedding popularly referred to as Dumsor. Residents in many parts of the capital, Accra and other regions have over the last few days…

Liberia has again, performed poorly in the 2021 United States Human Rights Report. In its report, the United States Department stated that the government of Liberia or its agents committed arbitrary killings and used the national budget as a tool for corruption.…

The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF is calling on authorities in Nigeria to make schools safe and provide a secure learning environment for every child in the country. The call comes exactly eight years since the first known attack by…

The European Union, EU has ended its military training in Mali. The decision was taken on Monday after a meeting of foreign ministers of the Union Tofik Abdul Nasir has the details.

There are fears of a fish shortage in Sierra Leone after the Industrial Vessel Fishermen threatened to suspend fishing activities if the government does not address their concerns surrounding their conditions of service. According to the fishermen, their current salary…

Several inmates of the Port Harcourt Maximum Security Custodial Centre, Rivers State, were on Monday wounded after riot broke out following the death of an inmate. Most of the injuries sustained by the inmates were through gunshots fired by security…

Gambia President Adama Barrow has decried what he calls the divisive politics that characterized the just ended legislative elections and the run up to the polls. Saturdays election saw President Barrow's National People's Party winning 19 of the 53 parliamentary…

The Nigerian Immigration Service says in a month's time, all passport issuance processes would be digitized.  This would allow applicants from anywhere in the world to track their passports application statuses online.  Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola disclosed this…

Families of the late former Liberian President William R. Tolbert and those killed during the April 12, 1980 coup are calling for a befitting burial for their family members. The former President was murdered along with several others on April…

The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has presented three genomic sequencing equipment to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana. The equipment is to enhance medical research, disease surveillance and response in the country…