The new French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu continued his West African tour on Saturday, meeting Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan. Lecornu’s visit to Ivory Coast follows a stop in Niger to discuss the security situation in…

Two bridges were blown up in Burkina Faso on Friday night by suspected Jihadists. The attackers destroyed the Woussé Bridge, forcing a convoy that was supposed to supply the town of Djibo to return to Kongoussi. They also blew up…

Mali’s security minister says six people have been killed, including two gendarmes and a police officer, in a rare attack near the country’s capital Bamako. Recall that a police station on the same road was ambushed by “unidentified armed individuals”…

Chinese-led Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) has put workers on forced leave with the prospect of layoffs. According to reports these layoffs will be in response to a dispute with Guinea's government over infrastructure for a massive iron project is not…

Liberia’s human rights activists have welcomed international partners' renewed commitment to work alongside CSOs in the fight for justice and accountability. At a news conference Monday, Liberian civil society human rights advocacy platform Secretary General Adama Dempster, at a news…

Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé has offered to mediate in the tensions between Mali and Cote d’Ivoire. This follows the detention of 49 Ivorian soldiers in Mali earlier this month. The Malian government spokesman Col. Abdoulaye Maiga said that the soldiers…

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP is forging an inclusive approach to address the spate of human trafficking which is reportedly on the rise in Nigeria.  Director General, Fatimah Waziri Azi, during an inaugural boot…

The Nigerian Chief of the Air Staff, CAS Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, has expressed the willingness of the Nigerian Air Force to assist the Armed Forces of Liberia in developing its airpower capability. The CAS stated this while receiving the…