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WFP launches cash transfer to assist IDPs in The Gambia

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday launched cash transfers to assist internally displaced people (IDPs), refugees, and host families in Foni Kansala (West Coast region, The Gambia).   This is as the conflict in the Senegalese Casamance region…

Mali suspends French broadcasters France 24 and RFI

The appears to be further deterioration in the relationship between the Malian authorities and France, the junta has announced the suspension of operational licenses of Radio France International (RFI) and France 24, two media agencies that depend on the French…

Mandatory drug test proposed for political aspirants in Nigeria

Nigeria's Anti-narcotics Agency, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, is urging political parties to make drug tests part of the screening requirements for aspirants seeking to contest political offices in the forthcoming general elections. Chairman of the agency, Retired Brig.-Gen.…

Coups: OSIWA tasks ECOWAS on collaboration with CSOs

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS has been tasked to intensify its collaboration with Civil Society Organizations and relevant partners in the restoration of constitutional order in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali. This was the submission by the…

Sankara trial resumes to discuss compensation

The trial hearing on the interests of the civil parties in the case of Thomas Sankara and his twelve companions opened on Monday, at the Ouagadougou military court.  While the Sankara family is asking for a symbolic franc, other victims’ families…

Bush fire engulfs Sierra Leone’s forest reserve

Bush fire has engulfed some parts of a forest reserve at Sierra Leone's biggest water supply reservoir. Authorities say the incident may be connected to attempts to grab land along the Western Area Peninsula.  As Patrick Sallia reports, experts fear…