West Africa

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…

At least five people have been hospitalized following severe burns at Liberia's Sethi Brothers Steel Plant outside Monrovia.  Three of the victims are set for medical evacuation to Ghana. WADR's Darlington Porkpa. 

The Nigerian government and a British Virgin Islands-registered company, Process, and Industrial Development (P&ID), are locked in a legal tussle over a $10 billion arbitral claim in the United States Court of Appeal. Documents seen by online portal, PREMIUM TIMES…

Nigeria's state-owned oil company NNPC is to be disbanded under a new law which came into effect on Tuesday. The government said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation would be replaced by an independent company. President Muhammadu Buhari said the Petroleum…

Ghana on Wednesday took delivery of some 249,600 doses of UK-donated AstraZeneca vaccines at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The consignment is being distributed and transported across Ghana to bolster the country’s vaccination exercise.  UNICEF, which facilitated the arrival of…

The Gambia has declared polio outbreak a national public health emergency after two environmental samples collected from the sewage sides tested positive for polio virus type 2. The sequence results showed the viruses detected in the Gambia are genetically linked.…