In Sierra Leone, witnesses testifying against the country’s former rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi insist he was in Liberia during the latter part of the Liberian civil war in 2003. Prosecutors recently returned to Liberia to interview additional witnesses after lawyers…

Leaders from about 13 West African countries have started arriving in Ghana ahead of an ECOWAS extraordinary session scheduled to take place today. The meeting is to discuss the military takeover in Guinea led by Colonel Mamadou Dambouya. The Ghana…

Federal lawmakers from Nigeria's Southeast say they will intervene to seek a soft landing for the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The lawmakers operating under the umbrella of the Southeast caucus of the…

Speaker of Nigeria’s lower chamber, Femi Gbajabiamila,says the refusal of the separatist movements in the southern part of the country to accommodate dissenting opinions makes them the same as the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists. He stated this on Wednesday…

Several persons have reportedly been killed and others injured in an aerial bombardment in Buwari community, Yunusari Local Government Area of Yobe State on Wednesday. A source in the community confirmed the incident to Channels Television, explaining that those injured…

Reports indicate that the feared leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) Abu Musab Al-Barnawi is dead. On Wednesday, APA news said Al-Barnawi apparently died during a gun battle toward the end of August in Borno State, The Nigerian government has however been tight-lipped about…

Governors from the southern region of Nigeria have declared their support for the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) by state governments, in place of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). They made the declaration on Thursday at a meeting…

The cholera epidemic declared on 9 August by the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health has led to over four thousand and two hundred cases across six of the country’s eight regions and claimed 144 lives.  Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says…

Guinea has declared the end of the Marburg virus outbreak after no cases were reported for 42 days – twice the incubation period, or the time between two infections and the onset of symptoms.  The virus was confirmed on August…