• 18 girls perish in canoe accident in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Jigawa
• Ghana’s President, John Mahama assures Nigeria there will be no mass deportations saying that recent fears sparked by old video are unfounded
• Burkina Faso’s media regulatory body suspends radio station for 3 months for referring to the current government as a “junta”
• Liberia enacts new legislation to curb exportation of unprocessed rubber
