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Osai Ojigho, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria has welcomed the release of the 600 men, including husbands of Knifar Women, from unlawful detention at Giwa Barracks and Maiduguri Maximum Prison. While it applauds the release of this batch of detainees…
Gambian President Adama Barrow has assured victims of former President Yahya Jammeh’s regime that “justice will be done.” The Gambian leader made the commitment after the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission TRRC presented its report on Thursday. Barrow says the…
The West Africa Autocratization Tracker has been launched in Dakar. The tracker is an initiative of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa and aims to monitor and report the trends of governance in this sub-region. Project Manager for V-Dem…
In a bid to tackle violence against women and girls, the Nigerian government has committed to establishing special courts to tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)cases. More details with Usman Umar in Abuja.
The Sierra Leonean government is set to introduce a new set of covid19 guidelines particularly for arriving passengers into the country. This decision according to the ministry of health is to safeguard Sierra Leone against another wave of infection. The…
In a bid to prevent the fourth wave of Covid-19 in Ghana, the government has declared December as a month of vaccination. Vaccination in December will be targeted at specific groups and venues including nightclubs, beaches, and restaurants. Persons who…
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to follow science and the International Health Regulations (2005) as the world faces threats of a new coronavirus variant. The advice comes as a growing number of countries impose flight bans on…
Director of Public Debt Management at Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance, has said that the country’s cumulative public debt has risen from 71.24% amounting to 26.78 trillion Leones in 2019 to 74.24% amounting to 30.71 trillion Leones which is about…
The trend of democratic governance in West Africa is rapidly declining. That’s the finding of a report due to be published today by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) in collaboration with Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute and…
Nigeria's national carrier, Nigeria Air is expected to take off in April 2022, the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has announced. This follows the approval of the outline business case for the establishment of the national carrier by the…
Campaigners in Senegal say more efforts are needed to halt female genital mutilation (FGM). The practice has been defined as the cutting of the external genetelia of a woman for non-medical reasons. According to the campaigners, one in five girls…
UNICEF says a total of 1,440 students were abducted in Nigeria in 2021 and 25 school attacks took place. Thousands of children in the region have been killed, maimed, abducted, displaced, and experienced multiple violations of their human rights, the…
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