At least 31 refugees and migrants lost their lives while seeking to cross the English Channel from France to England. The victims died when their dinghy sank off the northern coast of Calais. The United Nations migration agency, the International…

A United Nations Women report has revealed that thousands of women have experienced at least one form of violence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report titled ‘Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19’ also revealed…

From now on, travelers with a Togolese vaccination pass will be able to use it in the European Union (EU) and vice versa. A joint press release from the Ministry of Posts and the Digital Economy, and the EU delegation…

Liberia’s Finance Minister Samuel Tweah has been outlining issues affecting investments in Africa at the Choiseul Africa Business, CHOIESUL FORUM The forum aims to provide a platform for analyzing the growth-generating sectors in Africa and developing a collective intelligence and…

Director of Public Debt Management at Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance, has said that the country’s cumulative public debt has risen from 71.24% amounting to 26.78 trillion Leones in 2019 to 74.24% amounting to 30.71 trillion Leones which is about…

The trend of democratic governance in West Africa is rapidly declining. That’s the finding of a report due to be published today by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) in collaboration with Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute and…

Nigeria's national carrier, Nigeria Air is expected to take off in April 2022, the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has announced. This follows the approval of the outline business case for the establishment of the national carrier by the…

Campaigners in Senegal say more efforts are needed to halt female genital mutilation (FGM). The practice has been defined as the cutting of the external genetelia of a woman for non-medical reasons. According to the campaigners, one in five girls…