News link 2021-04-28 First Edition
News link 2021-04-28 First Edition
News link 2021-04-28 First Edition
Two Spanish journalists who were reported missing on Monday in Burkina Faso were found dead on Tuesday in the eastern region of Fada N'Gourma-Pama, according to the authorities in Burkina Faso and Spain. 44-year-old David Beriáin, a veteran newspapers' journalist…
In Ghana, The immediate past Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, says incidents of violence recorded in the 2020 general election in Ghana, have tainted the country’s bragging rights…
News link 2021-04-28 Second Edition
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed the end Trachoma, a tropical eye disease in The Gambia. Trachoma primarily affects children in some 45 countries around the world, including 29 in Africa. According to the WHO, around 137 million people live…
News link 2021-04-23 Second Edition
Despite positive and ongoing gains in economic development in many African countries, hunger is on the rise, impacting some 246 million people. The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the cracks in the continent’s food systems, already under strain…
The Swedish Army said 3 of its personal and members of the European special forces mission in Mali were hurt by a roadside bomb in the east of the country. The Swedish army in a statement Thursday, confirmed that the…
The Economy Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ministers have reaffirmed their commitment to effect measures to the climate measures after adopting the second commission’s Hydromet Forum report in Banjul. The report aims to improve the Regional Flood Risk Management…
Senegalese President Macky Sall has promised massive employment for Senegalese youth, stressing that unemployment is a long-drawn-out battle. According to Sall, the battle of employment cannot be won in a single day. The President made the declaration on Thursday at…
Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA) says it has embarked on an exercise to shut down 49 television (TV) stations for operating without authorization. This forms part of a continuous monitoring exercise conducted on various Satellite Free-to-Air Television platforms using the…
In the Malian Capital – Bamako, young people united in the campaign against frequent power outage, STOP delestage, organized a sit-in in front of the only electricity supply company in the country on Thursday. Described as an unauthorized sit-in, security…