With six months to go before Cote d’Ivoire’s October 2025 elections, tensions are rising over candidate eligibility and electoral preparations. Public debate is growing around the absence of some declared candidates from the official voter list, fueling uncertainty. The memory…

Senegal launched the Lancet’s Countdown to 2030 report in Dakar on Monday, spotlighting critical gaps in maternal and child health care. The report, developed by over 50 global experts, assesses health coverage and quality across 80 low and middle-income countries.…

Liberia’s Student Unification Party commemorated the April 14, 1979, “Rice and Rights Riot” with a memorial in Monrovia on Monday. The historic protest was sparked by a government proposal to raise rice prices, leading to nationwide outrage and deadly clashes.…

Tensions are high in Ghana’s Binduri district after two police officers were ambushed and killed by suspected armed robbers on April 13. The officers, traveling in plain clothes on motorbikes, were shot and had their bikes stolen, according to police.…

Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé has been appointed as the new mediator in the ongoing DRC-Rwanda crisis, the African Union announced on Saturday. He replaces Angola’s President João Lourenço, who previously led efforts to ease tensions between the two nations. Gnassingbé’s…

Hundreds of women marched through Port Harcourt demanding the reinstatement of Rivers State’s suspended governor, deputy governor, and legislature. The protest follows President Bola Tinubu’s recent declaration of a State of Emergency in the state. Chanting songs of unity and…

Guinea’s government has announced plans to hold presidential and legislative elections together to fast-track the return to constitutional rule. But the opposition coalition, Forces Vives de Guinée, has pushed back, calling for an inclusive dialogue and an independent electoral body.…