The trial hearing on the interests of the civil parties in the case of Thomas Sankara and his twelve companions opened on Monday, at the Ouagadougou military court.  While the Sankara family is asking for a symbolic franc, other victims’ families…

The main jihadist alliance in the Sahel says it is holding member of the Russian private military company Wagner. According to the group which sent a statement to AFP, the soldier was "captured" in central Mali during an attack in…

In Ghana, 36 organizations under the Public Services Workers Union (PSWU), are demanding for the payment of Political Neutrality Allowance for qualified members. The groups are demanding urgent action, similar to provisions made for members of the Civil and Local…

Bush fire has engulfed some parts of a forest reserve at Sierra Leone's biggest water supply reservoir. Authorities say the incident may be connected to attempts to grab land along the Western Area Peninsula.  As Patrick Sallia reports, experts fear…

The National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS has delisted ten Health Management Organizations, otherwise called HMOs, for failing to meet the minimum operational criteria. Executive Secretary of NHIS, Professor Mohammed Sambo revealed this to newsmen in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Sambo further…

The Beninese president Patrice Talon has commenced talks with the country’s government unions and associations over an increment in salary and wages. The meeting, the first, of its kind began on Tuesday in the capital with the consultation led by…

Health unions in Senegal have declared a strike to show solidarity after the arrest of four midwives accused of being complicit in the death of a patient during childbirth in a hospital in the northern part of the country. The…