West Africa

Thousands of Afghans remain desperate in attempts to flee the country as they que at the Kabul international airport. Recall, The Taliban forces took over power on August 15 forcing President Ashraf Ghani to flee. A Nato official told Reuters…

Niger confirms 50 victims of terrorist attacks in one week in its western region of Tillabéri. Residents of the region have described the situation as unacceptable as they demand for radical measures to improve security in the region. Over the…

Nigeria's state-owned oil company NNPC is to be disbanded under a new law which came into effect on Tuesday. The government said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation would be replaced by an independent company. President Muhammadu Buhari said the Petroleum…

Ghana on Wednesday took delivery of some 249,600 doses of UK-donated AstraZeneca vaccines at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The consignment is being distributed and transported across Ghana to bolster the country’s vaccination exercise.  UNICEF, which facilitated the arrival of…

The Gambia has declared polio outbreak a national public health emergency after two environmental samples collected from the sewage sides tested positive for polio virus type 2. The sequence results showed the viruses detected in the Gambia are genetically linked.…

The transitional President of Mali, Colonel Assimi Goïta has justified his ascension to power in a televised address on the eve of the first anniversary of the military coup which toppled former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keït Goïta also reaffirmed his…

The UN Security council has condemned attacks against civilians in the Sahel and West Africa The United Nations (UN) body responsible for maintaining international peace and security says the success of the fight against terrorism and violent extremism in Africa…

Dozens of people were killed in a clash between Islamist militants and government forces in northern Burkina Faso on Wednesday as violence spirals anew in West Africa's Sahel region. In an attack near the northern town of Arbinda, militants killed…

The Ghana Health Service says there have been 417 attempted suicide cases in the first half of the 2021.  Deputy Director of Mental Health at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Amma Ampomaa Boadu made this revelation on Thursday, during a…

Health authorities in Liberiasay the country is making tremendous progress in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. Unlike previous months, there are now less than ten positive confirmed cases in the country. WADR’s Darlington Porkpa reports from Monrovia.

Gambians continue to express their frustrations over poor ferry services in the country. Passengers sometimes sit for hours before they could be ferried from the capital Banjul to Barra and vice versa. This has been the case for decades and…

The death toll from an attack on civilians and the military in northern Burkina Faso has risen to 80 people, the government said in a statement on Thursday. The attack occurred on Wednesday when Islamist militants raided a civilian convoy…