Experts say Nigeria's rising inflation rate will further compound the challenges faced by citizens if urgent steps to reverse the trend are not taken.  They say the development has the potential to increase the worsening poverty rate in the country. …

The governments of Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso are taking steps to popularize a cross-border framework agreement that exists between their countries. The Secretariats in charge of the national border commissions of both countries are leading this effort through workshops…

The Nigerien government on Monday announced a new figure of the number of people killed in Sunday’s attack by suspected jihadists in the country’s west Tahoua region. The government spokesperson Zakaria Abdourahamane in a statement via state broadcaster said 137…

The Chairman of the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) says the killing of about 50 West African migrants in the Gambia in 2005 marked the height of former President Yahya Jammeh’s brutality. The commission said the killers of…

A Chinese fishmeal factory named Golden Lead based in Gunjur, The Gambia, has recently expanded their factory by grabbing land from women growing vegetables. Activists in the region confirm that the community living nearby the fishmeal and fish oil factories…