•Newly trained teachers in Ghana picket education services over 10-months of unpaid salaries and delayed staff identification numbers

•Sierra Leone’s Maada Bio takes over ECOWAS leadership from Nigeria’s Tinubu as he calls for unity amid growing instability.

•Liberia’s former speaker Koffa and others face potential
re-arrest, if they fail to validate their bail bond

•4th African Union SMEs Forum gets underway in Nigeria