Ghana’s foreign affairs minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has called for urgent international action in response to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in parts of Africa due to food insecurity.  The disaster, which has been brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, has…

In Liberia, residents have decried the shortage of smaller Liberian dollar banknotes in circulation. While the Liberian currency is in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 dollars, the smaller currency notes have been scarce since the George…

Authorities in the United States have jailed a top money launderer for a Ghana-based criminal enterprise. United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, announced that Fred Asante was sentenced to 108 months for his engagement…

Police in Senegal are investigating a video circulating since Tuesday on social media networks showing a man being manhandled by a crowd that hurls homophobic insults at him. The case comes amid controversy over Paris Saint-Germain soccer player and Senegalese…

Tricycle operators in the Gambia have called on authorities to restore their operations. This comes after police halted their operations this week. The authorities are yet to make any official statement on the reasons for stopping the business. Sankulleh Janko…

The Nigerian police have arrested two men suspected of being behind the high-profile kidnapping of two dozen students and the murder of five of them in April 2021 in the northwestern part of the country,  Abdulahi Hassan has the rest…

A 16-member ECOWAS delegation on Thursday continued its analysis of the national situation in Ouagadougou Government spokesman Lionel Bilgo said the delegation led by Ghana’s Foreign Affairs minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, and the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi…