Concerns have been raised in Ghana about threats and attacks against journalists in the country. At least 4 journalists including West Africa Journalist of the Year 2020 Manasseh Azure Awuni have received various messages, demanding they cease publishing articles about…

Eleven members of the security forces, including 4 soldiers, were killed in two attacks attributed to the jihadist group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, security sources said on Tuesday.  The sources said a convoy of local hunters recruited by the…

Senegalese President, Macky Sall on Tuesday called for "vigilance, responsibility and respect for the rules of prevention" against the coronavirus disease.  It comes as the country continues to record an increasing number of Covid19 cases. President Sall made the appeal…

One of Cote d’Ivoire’s main opposition leaders, Pascal Affi N'Guessan, was released and placed under judicial supervision on Wednesday, after almost two months of preventive detention. The release of Mr N’Guessan was announced by his lawyer, Pierre Dagbo. Abdullahi Hassan…

Senegal’s Minister of National Education, formally refuting the allegations on a reform aiming at introducing Sexual education at Senegalese schools. Minister Mamadou Talla said Wednesday that the curricular orientations remain attached and in an intangible way to the cultural and…

A British firm, Panthera Resources Plc, has announced that its associated company, Moydow Holdings Limited (Moydow), has commenced drilling at its Paimasa Project in Nigeria. The diversified gold exploration and development company with assets in West Africa and India, said…