The Gambia has relaxed travel restrictions as the tourist season draws nearer. However, airspace and land border remain closed. Sankulleh Janko reports from Banjul.

In a correspondence addressed to the Minister of Civil Service, Mali’s National Union of Workers in State Administration (Syntade) requests the immediate halt of legal proceedings initiated by the National Office for the Fight against Illicit Enrichment against civil servants. …

The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) has written both Chambers of the Legislature seeking the suspension of the 2020 National Referendum to next year. According to a PUL Statement issued in Monrovia Wednesday, the Union said public education on the…

Two high-level UN Officials voiced concern this week over the risk of “incitement to hostility, discrimination or violence” as Guinea gears up for elections on 18 October. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said there are already serious indications…

Burkina Faso's government says eighteen Burkinabe nationals died when a bus they were travelling in crashed near the town of Bouake in central Ivory Coast on Wednesday. Minister of Communication of Burkina Faso Remi Dandjinou says the deaths occurred when…

Ghana’s Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says a current cocoa policy is being piloted by his government. According to him, the policy has shown that farmers could increase their cocoa yield from two to ten bags per acre of land.…

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, strongly condemns an attack that killed 25 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Burkina Faso on the night of 4 October. Survivors of the attack said that 25 people- all men – were killed, and one…