President Julius Maada Bio has commissioned the expansion of Marampa Mines from 1.5 to 3.25 million tons of high-grade concentrate per annum.  As our Freetown correspondent Patrick Sallia reports, Marampa Mines is Sierra Leone's second-largest deposit of iron ore with a…

In Ghana, there are growing calls to have the country develop its own index to assess media freedom. It follows Ghana's poor showing in the World Press Freedom index which saw the country drop 30 places to 60th in the…

Airlines in Nigeria have called off their planned shutdown of flight operations earlier set to take effect from today, May 9th, 2022. The operators had threatened to suspend services over the high cost of aviation fuel also known as Jet…

Cote d’Ivoire is currently a nation in mourning following the death of Amadou Soumahoro, president of the Ivorian assembly. Soumahoro who died on Saturday at the age of 68, was considered a loyalist of President Alassane Ouattara and an icon…

In Burkina Faso, dozens of demonstrators marched through the capital, Ouagadougou on Saturday to demand the release of Lieutenant Colonel Emmanuel Zoungrana.  Colonel Zoungrana of the Burkinabe army was arrested in January 2022 for an attempted coup d'état.  He has…

In Nigeria, bandits killed at least 48 people in three communities of Zamfara state, northwest of the country. According to a local government official, the bandits stormed the communities at different times of the day last Friday and killed dozens…

At least 60 prison inmates are on the run after a jailbreak. Security sources on Sunday said gunmen attacked a correctional facility in the northwest region. As Abdullahi Hassan reports, the militants raided offices and burnt operational vehicles on the…

Over the weekend, the deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) Alexander Soros, paid a visit to Senegal at the invitation of Senegalese President and African Union chairperson, Macky Sall. Soros is the son of founder and president of…