The United States Embassy in Banjul through USAID has begun distributing $250,000 to flood victims in the Gambia. A total of 757 households amounting to over 6800 people began receiving cash and non-food items through the Gambia Red Cross Society…

The National Industrial Court will on Wednesday, rule on the Nigerian Government Suit to stop the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Justice Peter Hamman fixed the date on Monday after the lead counsel to…

The World Bank says Ghana is likely to receive about 600 million dollars as the balance of payment support for next year’s budget. The bank’s Country Director (Ghana), Pierre Frank Laporte who revealed this in an interview with local media,…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague says it has released Ahmed Al Faqi Al Mahdi, a former leader of Al Qaeda ally Ansar Dine, after serving his sentence According to Margot Tedesco, ICC Spokesperson in Mali, they followed…

In The Gambia, National Assembly Members have begun an intense debate on President Adama Barrow’s speech delivered during the State of the Nation Address last week. The Gambian leader stood before the parliamentarians informing them of the state of the…

The Foreign Affairs minister of Nigeria has echoed comments that the 46 soldiers detained in Mali since July 9 are not mercenaries.  According to Geoffrey Onyeama, who gave an interview to the French media RFI and France24, he visited Bamako…

A group calling itself the Coalition of Unemployed Graduate Nurses Assistants, Clinical and Preventive on Tuesday poured onto the streets of Tamale, protesting over what they say is a failure by government to post them since graduating in 2019. According…

Lawmakers in Nigeria on Tuesday met with university lecturers and other stakeholders over the seven months strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.  Speaker of the house, Femi Gbajabiamila who presided over the meeting, expressed worry over the…

The army in Burkina Faso announced that it had neutralized about 50 terrorists after the September 5 attack on the Bourzanga – Djibo road.  The attack left 35 people dead, all civilians. Several armed group bases have also been destroyed…