The Gambia Government says the presence of ECOWAS regional forces ECOMIG in the Gambia is temporal. The government made the statement amid continued debates on the relevance of their presence in the country. Sankulleh Janko reports from Banjul.

A local Nigerien government official says, gunmen kidnapped an American citizen in Niger early hours of Tuesday and demanded a ransom from his relatives. Ibrahim Abba Lele, a prefect in Birni-N’Konni town, told The Associated Press that Philipe Nathan Walton…

Liberian President George Weah will not stay in office beyond a second term, his chief of staff said Tuesday, quashing rumors that he would mimic regional leaders and bid for a third term. Addressing a news conference in the capital…

Nigerian journalist Veronica Dan Ukpoyi of TVC Communications in Lagos has been explaining how on Wednesday, some protesters invaded their offices, destroyed broadcast equipment, and set the building on fire.

 U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet strongly condemns what she says was the excessive and disproportionate use of force by Nigerian armed forces against peaceful protesters in the economic capital Lagos on Tuesday. She’s calling for perpetrators of…

Sierra Leone’s Covid-19 Emergency Response Center {NACOVERC} has announced that it will embark on a rationalization process through which it will scale down to Forty percent of its staff from the 1st of November 2020. The current workforce of the…