Chinese-led Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) has put workers on forced leave with the prospect of layoffs. According to reports these layoffs will be in response to a dispute with Guinea's government over infrastructure for a massive iron project is not…

Liberia’s human rights activists have welcomed international partners' renewed commitment to work alongside CSOs in the fight for justice and accountability. At a news conference Monday, Liberian civil society human rights advocacy platform Secretary General Adama Dempster, at a news…

Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé has offered to mediate in the tensions between Mali and Cote d’Ivoire. This follows the detention of 49 Ivorian soldiers in Mali earlier this month. The Malian government spokesman Col. Abdoulaye Maiga said that the soldiers…

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP is forging an inclusive approach to address the spate of human trafficking which is reportedly on the rise in Nigeria.  Director General, Fatimah Waziri Azi, during an inaugural boot…

The Nigerian Chief of the Air Staff, CAS Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, has expressed the willingness of the Nigerian Air Force to assist the Armed Forces of Liberia in developing its airpower capability. The CAS stated this while receiving the…

The International Labor Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in a report published on Wednesday said women working in the health and care sector earn nearly 25 percent less than their male counterparts – a larger gender pay gap than…

In Cameroon, which is an oil-producing country, the scarcity and high cost of fuel is becoming more and more problematic for many inhabitants.  Many gas stations in major cities, such as Douala, Yaoundé and Ebolowa are currently closed. Atiewin Mbillah-Lawson…

Pressure group, Arise Ghana, has asked the Ghana Police Service to drop all charges against 31 of its members who were arrested during its demonstration two weeks ago. During the protest on June 28, some protesters were arrested by the…