The Gambia has received 38,000 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine through the COVAX Facility. The donation was made by the French government. The doses are expected to close the gap for adult Gambians who are yet to receive the second…

Heavy flooding in the Upper West region of northern Ghana has left one dead and hundreds displaced, officials confirmed on Saturday. Ahmed Mustapha, the regional coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), said an 80-year-old woman died and at…

Local sources say fifteen more abducted students of Bethel Baptist Secondary School in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state have regained their freedom. Although the government or security agencies are yet to confirm the development, a source in the…

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, say the deaths of 47 people who were onboard a boat heading to the Canary Islands from North Africa’s Atlantic coast highlights the urgent need for more support…

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has agreed to suspend its strike after an emergency meeting was held with the National Labour Commission (NLC) and the Labour Relations Ministry.  This development occurred after both parties were advised by Ghana’s…

At least five people have been hospitalized following severe burns at Liberia's Sethi Brothers Steel Plant outside Monrovia.  Three of the victims are set for medical evacuation to Ghana. WADR's Darlington Porkpa. 

The Nigerian government and a British Virgin Islands-registered company, Process, and Industrial Development (P&ID), are locked in a legal tussle over a $10 billion arbitral claim in the United States Court of Appeal. Documents seen by online portal, PREMIUM TIMES…

Nigeria's state-owned oil company NNPC is to be disbanded under a new law which came into effect on Tuesday. The government said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation would be replaced by an independent company. President Muhammadu Buhari said the Petroleum…

Ghana on Wednesday took delivery of some 249,600 doses of UK-donated AstraZeneca vaccines at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The consignment is being distributed and transported across Ghana to bolster the country’s vaccination exercise.  UNICEF, which facilitated the arrival of…

The Gambia has declared polio outbreak a national public health emergency after two environmental samples collected from the sewage sides tested positive for polio virus type 2. The sequence results showed the viruses detected in the Gambia are genetically linked.…