West Africa

Nigeria's House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Arms and Ammunition Purchase, has summoned the Chief of Army Staff, Major-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, and the Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, over alleged misappropriation of funds meant for arms and ammunitions purchase…

Amnesty International has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate armed attacks, looting and rapes reportedly committed by the Boko Haram in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State. Citing interviews of villagers in Borno State, the rights group said some…

Journalists in Senegal say they have experienced increasing intimidation since opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was detained for several days earlier this month. Sonko’s arrest and subsequent release sparked unrest and claimed at least five lives. While Media rights groups have…

Students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) on Wednesday protested a directive from management asking those who paid their fees late to defer their courses for the year. Clad in black and red, the students have besieged the premises…

Ivorian government spokesperson Sidi Touré has announced that a new prime minister will probably be known after April 1, 2021. This follows a Council of Ministers meeting. The country’s’ immediate past Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko died on March 10. Ivorian government…

Togo and Ghana have resumed negotiations for the delimitation of their common maritime borders. This meeting, the sixth since the start of the process, could lead to the development of a draft agreement and a route plan to be proposed…

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has begun a probe into reports of vaccine sales by some health officials. Over the weekend, reports indicated that some vaccines had been stolen by three staff of the service, who had intended to sell…

Experts say Nigeria's rising inflation rate will further compound the challenges faced by citizens if urgent steps to reverse the trend are not taken.  They say the development has the potential to increase the worsening poverty rate in the country. …

The governments of Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso are taking steps to popularize a cross-border framework agreement that exists between their countries. The Secretariats in charge of the national border commissions of both countries are leading this effort through workshops…

The Nigerien government on Monday announced a new figure of the number of people killed in Sunday’s attack by suspected jihadists in the country’s west Tahoua region. The government spokesperson Zakaria Abdourahamane in a statement via state broadcaster said 137…

The Chairman of the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) says the killing of about 50 West African migrants in the Gambia in 2005 marked the height of former President Yahya Jammeh’s brutality. The commission said the killers of…

Ghana’s government is optimistic that the 2021 budget statement and economic policy will steer the country towards recovery from the impact of COVID-19.  According to the latest Bank of Ghana Summary of Economic and Financial Data, Ghana’s public debt stock…