West Africa

Chad's interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby has urged Mali's military junta to reconsider its decision to withdraw from a five-nation military force fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region. Malian authorities announced the decision last week, blaming the lack of…

In Mali, armed men kidnapped an Italian couple and their son in southern Mali overnight, their church said on Friday. A spokesman for the Jehovah's Witnesses church in neighboring Senegal said the couple is in their 70s and their son…

In The Gambia, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has assisted in the return about 200 migrants from Libya. The IOM facilitated the voluntary humanitarian return of 148 Gambian migrants stranded in Libya through a return flight, and another 45…

Ghana’s government says some citizens have been recruited into terrorist groups in the West African sub-region.  Ghana’s government is therefore calling for increased surveillance among its citizens to curtail any possible attacks. Eric Mawuena Egbeta has the details

The General Staff of the armies says a jihadist assault has been repelled in the center-north of the country. The incident occurred on Saturday when the Burkinabè army detachment in Bourzanga, 170 kilometers north of Ouagadougou was attacked around 5…

On Monday, the world marked International Day for the Elimination of Fistula under the theme "End fistula now, invest in quality care and empower communities". In Niamey, the Minister of Public Health and Social Affairs, Dr. Idi Illiassou Mainassara called…

ECOWAS through its Gender Development Centre and the West Africa Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN HCHR), is organizing a High-Level Meeting to Support the Protection of Children Victims of Human Rights Violations (PAPEV).…

Forty eight hours after a building collapse in Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos, the state disaster management agency, LASEMA says rescue operations are ongoing to save persons trapped in the rubble. The agency has so confirmed that four people were killed…

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana has for the second consecutive time increased the Policy Rate – the rate at which it lends to commercial banks by 200 basis points to 19%. This was announced by the…

Mali and Russia have agreed to add trade and development to their corporation strategy. The understanding reached between the two countries also consolidates the change of Mali’s alliances and strategy in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel. Sankulleh Janko…

Tricycle operators in the Gambia have called on authorities to restore their operations. This comes after police halted their operations this week. The authorities are yet to make any official statement on the reasons for stopping the business. Sankulleh Janko…

The Nigerian police have arrested two men suspected of being behind the high-profile kidnapping of two dozen students and the murder of five of them in April 2021 in the northwestern part of the country,  Abdulahi Hassan has the rest…