The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, applauds Togo's accession to the two UN Conventions on Statelessness.  Togo has now become the latest country to join the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction…

The desperate attempts by many to enter Europe continues unabated authorities in Spain’s autonomous city of Melilla say 238 African men have made it into the North African Spanish enclave after climbing over fences separating it from Morocco. Veronic Njie…

Thursday, 22nd July 2021 marks 27 years since former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh ousted Sir Dr Kairaba Jawara, the first democratically elected president of the country, through a coup d'état that was widely seen as bloodless. 27 years on, the…

The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission is currently investigating the head of the National Transit Authority (NTA)—Herbie McCauley over alleged acts of corruption. On Wednesday, aggrieved employees of the NTA staged a protest in front of President George Weah's office, calling on…

A Ghanaian High Court has ordered the National Communications Authority (NCA) to stop collecting the personal information of mobile phone subscribers. In the notice to the agency, the court ordered the government to delete all such data already gathered, and…

Following a BBC report indicating that 450,000 Covid vaccine doses have been destroyed in nine African countries including Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone's National Covid 19 Emergency Response Center {NaCOVERC} says the country has not yet destroyed theirs. The station quoted…

Exams start in Mali next Monday, but nothing is certain. The teachers' unions have not lifted their boycott. On Thursday, the Malian Minister of Labour met with the trade unionists to try to defuse the crisis, but there was no…

The Nigerian military announced the arrival of the first batch of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft procured from the United States of America.  It says the aircraft arrived in Kano State on Thursday. A statement from the Nigerian Air Force…