The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi says the war in Ukraine and other conflicts have forcibly displaced total over 100 million for first time.  According to Grandi, this figure must ‘serve as a wake-up call’ for more action…

Beginning today, Monday, Africans Rising for Justice, Peace, and Dignity will hold a week-long series of activities in commemoration of Africa Day. May 25 each year, is celebrated in various countries on the continent, as well as around the world…

Chad's interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby has urged Mali's military junta to reconsider its decision to withdraw from a five-nation military force fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region. Malian authorities announced the decision last week, blaming the lack of…

In Mali, armed men kidnapped an Italian couple and their son in southern Mali overnight, their church said on Friday. A spokesman for the Jehovah's Witnesses church in neighboring Senegal said the couple is in their 70s and their son…

In The Gambia, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has assisted in the return about 200 migrants from Libya. The IOM facilitated the voluntary humanitarian return of 148 Gambian migrants stranded in Libya through a return flight, and another 45…

Ghana’s government says some citizens have been recruited into terrorist groups in the West African sub-region.  Ghana’s government is therefore calling for increased surveillance among its citizens to curtail any possible attacks. Eric Mawuena Egbeta has the details

The General Staff of the armies says a jihadist assault has been repelled in the center-north of the country. The incident occurred on Saturday when the Burkinabè army detachment in Bourzanga, 170 kilometers north of Ouagadougou was attacked around 5…