The Gambia’s Medicine Control Agency blames the lack  of equipment for failing to detect contaminated drugs linked to Acute Kidney Injury cases and the subsequent death of 70 children in the country Meanwhile, Health Ministry says it has introduced a…

One thousand five hundred national community health volunteers have been sworn-in in Ouagadougou and Saaba.   The volunteers are to work in various communities and municipalities towards strengthening the surveillance of diseases with epidemic potential.  Abdullahi Hassan has more…

Senegal, Customs Monday announced a record seizure of 300 hundred kilograms of cocaine in the southeast of the country. Seized on its way to the capital city Dakar, the drug is estimated at 36 million US dollars. Maty Sy has…

The Minority leader of Ghana’s Parliament, Hon Haruna Iddrisu, says Akufo-Addo’s address to the nation on the state of the economy is the first time the President has openly admitted that the country is in a crisis. Addressing a local…

Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry in a statement has disregarded claims that the country and 19 others have been barred from entering the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to the Ministry, it has received no such directive from the authorities in…

Arising from the series of security advisories issued by some Embassies in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital warning their citizens to avoid public places, the Federal Capital Territory Executive Committee, the highest decision-making body of the territory, has reassured the residents of…

Consumers of sachet water in Ghana are calling for government intervention to reduce the price of the commodity after prices saw a more than 10 percent increase on Monday.  The latest development joins the long list of items that continue…

Unidentified armed men have attacked the border police station called "Kontra" near the village of Dabira, in the urban commune of Madarounfa in Northern Niger.  The attack, which occurred on Sunday night according to authorities, is the first of its…