Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament rejects calls by the Majority MPs to recall the House to address some 22 urgent government business items

•Debates begin in The Gambia’s National Assembly on the country’s 2025 budget with differing suggestions from members of the House on allocations

•Four executives of mining company Barrick Gold arrested in Mali for alleged money laundering and misappropriation

And, a new report in Cote d’Ivoire shows that there were more than 3,500 cases of pregnancies recorded in schools in the year 2023