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Burkina Faso swears in community health volunteers

One thousand five hundred national community health volunteers have been sworn-in in Ouagadougou and Saaba.   The volunteers are to work in various communities and municipalities towards strengthening the surveillance of diseases with epidemic potential.  Abdullahi Hassan has more…

Senegal announces record cocaine seizure

Senegal, Customs Monday announced a record seizure of 300 hundred kilograms of cocaine in the southeast of the country. Seized on its way to the capital city Dakar, the drug is estimated at 36 million US dollars. Maty Sy has…

Sachet water prices rise by 10% in Ghana

Consumers of sachet water in Ghana are calling for government intervention to reduce the price of the commodity after prices saw a more than 10 percent increase on Monday.  The latest development joins the long list of items that continue…

Gunmen kill three police officers in Niger

Unidentified armed men have attacked the border police station called "Kontra" near the village of Dabira, in the urban commune of Madarounfa in Northern Niger.  The attack, which occurred on Sunday night according to authorities, is the first of its…