Ministers in the Gambia appeared before the National Assembly on Wednesday to give oral answers pertinent to issues under their purview.  Key issues raised by the lawmakers include financial terrorism, state of security in the country and maternal mortality. Our…

Nigeria’s presidential election campaigns officially kicked off on Wednesday ahead of the 2023 general elections. Eighteen candidates cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission are in the race to convince the 96.3 million voters why they deserve to succeed President…

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Guinean Organization for Human and Citizens' Rights (OGDH) and the Association of Victims, Parents and Friends of the Events of September 28, 2009 welcome the opening of the trial of the massacre.…

Authorities in Nigeria said gunmen killed at least five soldiers and a civilian in the southeastern state of Anambra on Thursday.  This is the latest bloodshed in a region where separatist tensions often flare. The governor of the state Charles…

The Malian Prime Minister Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga says the Junta does not respect and will not apply sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on neighbouring Guinea in the wake of last year's coup. ECOWAS leaders…

The latest report from the World Health Organization shows that Liberia is the third among other African countries who have fully vaccinated more than 75% of its population with the COVID-19 vaccine. At the peak of the outbreak of the…

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Baba Alkali on Thursday said the Southwest Security Outfit called Amotekun and other “quasi-security outfits” established by state governments won’t participate in next year’s general elections.  The police chief said this in Abuja at…