West Africa

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…

The Nigerian Army has solicited the cooperation of the media in its protracted fight against insecurity in the country. General Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defense Staff at the opening of a three-day conference on "Enhancing Journalist-Military" cooperation said both parties…

President of the Malian National Transitional Council, Colonel Malick Diaw has condemned ECOWAS, WAEMU and European Union sanctions on the country. Colonel Diaw made the remarks during the opening ceremony of the April 2022 ordinary session of the national transition council in…

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the implementation of a social and behavioural change project for better health outcomes. The project, dubbed: “USAID-Ghana accelerating…

President of the Movement for the Renaissance of Burkina Faso (MRB) of Burkina Faso, Yéli Monique Kam has called on President Paul-Henri Damiba to open a debate on secularism and religious facts in the context of building social cohesion. Patrick…

In three weeks, Lomé will hold the 'Lomé Conference on Political Transitions and the Fight against Terrorism in the Sahel and West Africa'.  Preparations are well underway for the conference scheduled for April 21. Abdulahi Hassan has the details.