West Africa

The Burkina Faso government has banned the importation of poultry and poultry products from Benin, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire. The Burkinabe Ministry of Animal Resources in a statement announcing the ban, said the decision followed outbreak of the highly pathogenic…

A local official in Ghana has confirmed the death of at least 10 people in a road accident in southern region of the country on Sunday. Winneba Municipal Fire Officer Henry Asiedu said the accident happened when two buses traveling…

Scores of residents of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, have been displaced after floods destroyed their homes. It is not the first time that residents in parts of Freetown have been displaced due to flood. In August 2017, over 1000…

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…

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed not to exit the government as a failure at the end of his second term in office in 2023. Buhari made the declaration during a crucial closed-door meeting with service chiefs held on Thursday…

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, say the deaths of 47 people who were onboard a boat heading to the Canary Islands from North Africa’s Atlantic coast highlights the urgent need for more support…

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has agreed to suspend its strike after an emergency meeting was held with the National Labour Commission (NLC) and the Labour Relations Ministry.  This development occurred after both parties were advised by Ghana’s…