Ghana where the presidency has appointed COP Dr George Akuffo Dampare as Ag. Inspector General of Police (IGP) with effect from August 1. He is set to take over from James Oppong-Boanuh, who was appointed by President Akufo-Addo in October…

The Ghana Union of Traders (GUTA) has threatened nationwide demonstration if retail laws are reviewed in favor of Nigerian traders. This follows an announcement by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, stating that Nigerian traders will be exempted from the…

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, applauds Togo's accession to the two UN Conventions on Statelessness.  Togo has now become the latest country to join the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction…

The desperate attempts by many to enter Europe continues unabated authorities in Spain’s autonomous city of Melilla say 238 African men have made it into the North African Spanish enclave after climbing over fences separating it from Morocco. Veronic Njie…

Thursday, 22nd July 2021 marks 27 years since former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh ousted Sir Dr Kairaba Jawara, the first democratically elected president of the country, through a coup d'état that was widely seen as bloodless. 27 years on, the…

The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission is currently investigating the head of the National Transit Authority (NTA)—Herbie McCauley over alleged acts of corruption. On Wednesday, aggrieved employees of the NTA staged a protest in front of President George Weah's office, calling on…

A Ghanaian High Court has ordered the National Communications Authority (NCA) to stop collecting the personal information of mobile phone subscribers. In the notice to the agency, the court ordered the government to delete all such data already gathered, and…

Following a BBC report indicating that 450,000 Covid vaccine doses have been destroyed in nine African countries including Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone's National Covid 19 Emergency Response Center {NaCOVERC} says the country has not yet destroyed theirs. The station quoted…