The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic has killed 100 people in Ghana so far. According to the Director-General of the health service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Greater Accra Region is recording an…

Eleven individuals were arrested Wednesday in Abobo, in the north of Abidjan, following the seizure of 6,000 wooden planks by the Special Surveillance and Intervention Brigade (BSSI), a unit to fight against crime linked to forests and water resources. Atiewin…

A Nigerien Mayor and his driver have been arrested by the police for attempting to smuggle 214 kilos of cocaine to Libya. The Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS) said Wednesday. The drugs seized on Sunday,…

In Senegal, the Bureau of the National Assembly, the decision-making body of the Senegalese parliament, has described as inadmissible, the bill seeking to criminalize homosexuality in the country. Abdulahi Hassan reports.

President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out the option of pardoning the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony instituted against him in response to years of the campaign…

The Chadian Government has called for justice after a video that showed the torture of a young former Chadian soldier, Nassour Mahamat Ishak by Libyan militias went viral.  The video which included a demand for a ransom of 35 million CFA…

The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has announced a new date for amnesty applications. The amnesty application is open to confessed perpetrators of human rights abuses from July 1994-2017. Sankulleh Janko has more.

The Edo State Police Command has refuted claims of a herdsmen invasion in a Local Community in Edo State. Reports indicate that the suspected Fulani herdsmen were dressed in military uniform when they invaded a farming community in the state.…

Community policing has again been advocated as one of the quickest ways out of the current security challenges facing parts of Nigeria. In an interview with WADR, a retired army general who is now a security analyst, Gen. Olusola Williams,…

One hundred and sixty inmates from Sierra Leone's congested maximum Prison on Pademba road in Freetown have received a Presidential pardon.  One hundred and seventeen of them who were one death sentence were committed to life imprisonment. WADR’S Patrick Sallia…

The United States during the weekend cut 3 African countries from access to a duty-free trade program over alleged human rights violations and recent coups. Two West African countries namely Mali and Guinea and Ethiopia were those affected by the…