West Africa

A regional conference on climate change, peace and security in West Africa and the Sahel is underway in Dakar. The meeting organized by the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Ireland and the Ghanian government in…

In Nigeria, lawmakers have met with the country's Service Chiefs over the worsening security situation in the country. The over five-hour meeting held behind closed doors was to proffer solutions to the issue, following attacks on Kaduna International Airport and…

An 83-year-old American nun has been kidnapped by armed men in northern Burkina Faso. According to the Bishop of the Kaya diocese, Theophile Nare in a statement on Tuesday, Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken to an unknown destination by her…

A Military tribunal in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso today, Wednesday, sentenced former Burkinabe president Blaise Compaore and his accomplices in the 1987 coup that killed revolutionist, Thomas Sankara. Killed at 37 years of age, the Pan Africanist got justice 37 years…

Cape Verdean police have seized more than five tonnes of cocaine on board a fishing boat from Brazil, with the help of American agents. During the drug bust, 5 Brazilians and 2 Montenegrins were arrested. The Wednesday night drug bust…

A group of pastors under the umbrella of Interfaith Alliance have staged a peaceful protest against the incessant attacks and killings by bandits in Kaduna State. The protesters are asking the Federal Government to step up actions against banditry with…

Ivorian refugees sheltering in Liberia are gradually making their way back home as they feel the situation is calmer. The refugees have been seeking shelter in Liberia since the war broke out in 2004 in Côte d’Ivoire. WADR’s Darlington Porkpa…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has deployed forty observers to monitor the Gambia’s National Assembly elections on Saturday.  The observers were deployed on Thursday as part of the ECOWAS electoral support to Member States. Sankulleh Janko has…

Ghana’s Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has blamed the woes of the cedi largely on negative credit ratings, challenges in getting the 2022 budget passed, and the refusal of investors to roll over their monies in Ghana’s economy. In a…

The transition government on Thursday accused the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) of ignoring a court order to lift economic sanctions imposed. UEMOA instructed all financial institutions under its umbrella to suspend Mali in January after the junta…

Human Rights Watch, said the Malian armed forces and associated foreign soldiers allegedly summarily executed an estimated 300 civilian men, some of them suspected Islamist fighters, in the central Malian town of Moura in late March 2022. HRW in the…

At least 10 soldiers were killed after suspected bandits stormed a military base in Nigeria’s north-central state of Kaduna. Several persons were injured in the attack that occurred according to sources, in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna, a…