The much-anticipated June 4th Summit by the Economic Community Of West African States ECOWAS ended in the Ghanaian capital – Accra with leaders agreeing to meet again on July 3rd. In a communiqué issued by the regional body, certain declarations…

The Government of Liberia is exerting efforts to expand Domestic Revenue Generation in the midst of low donor support. One such move was manifested over the weekend when 60 new customs officers graduated from a three month rigorous training exercise.…

According to the NGO-Water Aid, 6 out of 10 people in Sierra Leone cannot access water.  Engineers of the city's main water supplier-Guma Valley Water Company have often complained that the swelling number of residents in Freetown has dangerously outstretched…

Two peacekeepers were killed and two wounded in an attack on a convoy of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in central Mali, over the weekend, UN sources reported. The latest attack occurred barely a day…

Police say a man who had a row with a Muslim cleric died in the capital, Abuja, after being set ablaze by a mob supporting the cleric. Ahmad Usman, 30, was in a local vigilante group and police say about…

The West African bloc, ECOWAS, has postponed making a decision on Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso after its leaders failed to agree on what action to take against the military juntas in each of those three countries. The region's leaders,…

In Nigeria, an unknown number of people have been confirmed killed after an attack over the weekend at the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, southwest Nigeria.  The attack reportedly occurred on the church premises…

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS has assured of accelerated action on the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway development project. Stakeholders made this disclosure at the sixteenth Ministerial Steering Committee and Experts meetings on the Abidjan-Lagos Project which was held…