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In Burkina Faso, the electoral campaign for the presidential and legislative elections of November 22 began last Saturday. 13 candidates for the presidential election and more than 10,500 for the legislative elections are crisscrossing the country to woo voters. The…
Senegalese President – Macky Sall has appointed a new cabinet days after dissolving the former. In the new formation, some new faces were introduced while some former ministers including the head of the army were recalled. But the cabinet reshuffle…
Provisional results from Saturday’s election in Cote d’Ivoire put Incumbent President Alassane Ouattara in a strong early lead as he seeks a third term in an election that has been marked by deadly violence. The results suggest that Ouattara won…
The standstill in Guinea caused by the recent rise in political tensions have put the economy of neighbouring countries like Sierra Leone many of whose business people largely depend on to buy goods. The political stalemate, coupled with the closure…
A Judicial worker in Liberia, Archie Ponpon has set himself ablaze in demand of salary and benefits allegedly owed him and several other employees by the Judiciary Branch of Government. Archie has been leading aggrieved staffers to protest in demand…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said the country’s economy is “too fragile” to go through another period of lockdown. President Buhari, through his Twitter handle, urged Nigerians to continue adhering to the laid down COVID-19 protocols in order to…
Countries will review Liberia’s human rights record during the 36th session of the Universal Periodic Review at the United Nations Human Rights Council on November 2, 2020. Liberian officials will participate in the review. Ahead of the review, Liberian, regional,…
The International Criminal Court (ICC), prosecutor Ms. Fatou Bensouda, has warned that the violence experienced in Côte d'Ivoire during the first pre- and post-election crisis of 2010 must not be repeated. In a statement on Wednesday, the ICC prosecutor expressed…
A new research shows Ghana recorded 200,000 abortions in 2017, out of which 71 per cent were illegal. It says the country also records an estimated 767,200 unintended pregnancies each year. The figure represents 53 per cent of total pregnancies.…
The Nigerian authorities’ must end their attempts to cover up the Lekki Toll Gate massacre, Amnesty International said, as it released a new timeline investigating the atrocity one week later. The timeline collates photographs and video footage to confirm that…
A Mauritanian suspected jihadist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to shooting dead five people in an attack in the Malian capital Bamako in 2015. Fawaz Ould Ahmed also admitted to planning two other attacks in the country that year that targeted…
It’s been five years since the Gambia like several other African countries placed a ban on single use plastics. The ban became necessary after complaints of widespread pollution. But as Veronic Njie reports from Banjul, the enforcement of the ban…
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