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Ghana reopens schools closed due to COVID

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced the reopening of schools this month. While Kindergarten and Junior High School pupils are to return to school on January 15, 2021, first-year Senior High School students will start classes on March 10 with…

UNHCR condemns massacre of civilians in Niger

The UN Refugee Agency, (UNHCR) has condemned in the strongest terms the twin attacks in western Niger that killed at least 100 people, injured 25 others, and forced hundreds to flee on 2 January. Armed groups mounted coordinated attacks on…

COVID-19: Schools in Liberia reopen

Normal academic activities officially started in Liberia on Monday, January 4, 2021. Schools were closed in March 2020 after the country recorded its index case of COVID-19. However, as Pastor Maxwell Sando Sr., a school teacher in Monrovia explains to…

France to reduce troops in The Sahel

France’s defense minister said Monday that her government will reconsider its military strategy in the Sahel region and very likely reduce military deployment as part of Operation Barkhane after significant military successes in 2020. Minister Parly told daily Le Parisien…