West Africa

The Academic Staff of the University of Sierra Leone have resumed their suspended industrial action on Monday 23rd November over conditions of service.  Patrick Sallia reports from Freetown…

The Guinean government on Monday announced a ban on political demonstrations across the country until further notice, citing the coronavirus pandemic. But the opposition has denounced the move, saying the government is using the pandemic to silence opponents of President…

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR has airlifted 95 tonnes of emergency supplies as nearly 15,000 Ivorians find refuge in Liberia. A statement from the agency said that a chartered Boeing 747 cargo flight loaded with blankets, jerry cans, kitchen sets,…

The media reported on Tuesday that seven people, including six foreigners, have been jailed for seven years for oil theft in Nigeria. The sentence was handed down to two Pakistani nationals, two Ukrainians, one person from Ghana, one from Indonesia,…

Three crew members from a bunker barge have been kidnapped during a pirate attack in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa. According to the security firm Dryad Global, the Bunker barge Stelios K was hijacked last week…

Survivors and families of the victims of about 44 Ghanaians, who were massacred in The Gambia in July 2005, have accused the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Committee in the Gambia of not prioritizing justice for the victims.  Speaking during a…

At least three soldiers and two members of the Civilian Joint Task Force were killed while others were wounded in an ambush coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents at Ja’alta along Gajiram-Monguno road over the weekend. The convoy comprising military personnel…

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has called for CNN to be sanctioned for what he describes as reinforcement of “the disinformation that is going around” following CNN’s investigations which claimed that Nigerian protesters were shot at by…