Malian Journalist Aliou Touré, who disappeared nearly a week ago, is free. The editor of the newspaper the Démocrate was found safe and sound late last night. For the moment there is no information on the circumstances of his disappearance,…

A wooden boat carrying nearly a hundred passengers and goods capsized shortly after taking off from the shores of a riverine community in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in the South-South region of Nigeria. Days after the incident…

The United Nations says an International Mediation to Mali, a group comprising the UN mission, the African Union, and ECOWAS has presented concrete proposals to the parties of the peace agreement to relaunch the implementation process. The announcement by a…

A media rights defender, The Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ is calling on Sierra Leonean authorities to investigate the recent attack on journalist Alie Melvin Tokowa. CPJ also demands that the perpetrators be brought to book. Tokowa, manager of a…

Economists in Ghana say the country’s economic management team must ramp up efforts to secure a financial bailout from the International Monetary Fund IMF in the shortest possible time. This comes as the Fund expresses concern over a potential wave of…

In Côte d’Ivoire, the telecommunications regulatory authority has announced a reduction in the price of mobile Internet connections. Mobile data rates were increased on April 6. A decision that did not go down well with consumers who, at the request…