The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is sounding the alarm about the situation of displaced populations in Mali. In its latest report, published at the beginning of June, the UN agency takes stock of the situation…

The Gambia’s parliamentary standing committee on defence and security has held a consultative meeting with the Office of the National Security. This meeting was convened to help the lawmakers familiarize themselves with the National Security Council Bill which is set…

President Bola Tinubu is today expecting a template for a new minimum wage from the minister of Finance. Tinubu Tuesday, order his coordinating minister Wale Edun to present the template just a day after the nationwide strike by organized labour…

One person has been reported dead and 30 others trapped in a collapsed gold mine in Niger state, Nigeria. The state emergency management agency in a statement on Tuesday said six miners were rescued from the pit with serious injuries.…

Ghana’s Electoral Commission has rescinded its initial decision to bar political party agents from observing the ongoing voter transfer exercise. The Commission recently directed its Regional Directors not to permit agents of political parties to observe the exercise, in response…

Fake and illegal nursing schools operating in Liberia risk closure as a task force has been constituted to ensure their closure. Recent statistics by the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery show an increase in the number of Bogus health…

Cote d’Ivoire has just secured 600 billion CFA francs or I billion dollars loan from the Korean Cooperation Fund for Economic Development. The agreement was signed at the first Africa – South Korea summit, in Seoul. This partnership agreement signed…

Burkina Faso’s lawyers are up in arms against the military authorities. They began a five-day strike on Tuesday during which there will be no hearings in any of the country’s courts. Among other things, they are demanding that the rules…

The organized labour unions in Nigeria have suspended an indefinite strike they embarked upon on Monday to protest the hike in electricity tariff and disagreement over the new national minimum wage. Secretary to the government of the Federation and other…

The two major political parties, the governing New Patriotic Party NPP and the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC are split over a directive of the Electoral Commission to political parties to withdraw their agents from the ongoing voter transfer centres.…

The National Council of the House of Breeder in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on June 4, held a National Forum for sharing and popularizing the pastoral code. Recall, the pastoral code was…