Sierra Leone's President Juluis Maada Bio on Wednesday launched the Global Fund and approved grants for his country to the tune of 157 million dollars.  The funds will shore up the country’s fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and COVID and will run from 2021 to…

In Senegal, the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (ARTP) has taken the lead in the fight against any health risk related to non-ionizing radiation (NIR). Assessing the exposure to danger and the importance of the risk in order to…

Nigeria’s government has approved the National Policy on the fifth-generation (5G) network. This is according to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who addressed journalists in Abuja after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. He…

A seven-member delegation from the Gambia on a five-day ICT study tour in Ghana has called on Communications Minister Ursula Owusu Ekuful. The delegation, led by the Gambian Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure Ebrima Sillah included the Director General…

The State Security Service, SSS in Nigeria, has filed five terrorism charges against two associates of Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Jamiu Oyetunji and Amudat Babatunde were accused…

President of Liberia His Excellency Dr. George Manneh Weah has challenged leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to take seriously the issue of adherence to constitutional term limits to avoid political and security upheavals in the…

ECOWAS has suspended Guinea following a recent coup in the country. On Sunday, Guinean special forces led by Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya seized power and arrested president Alpha Conde, sparking international condemnation.  Regional bloc ECOWAS convened an extraordinary virtual summit…