West Africa

Residents of Tamale, the Northern Regional capital of Ghana, have been left homeless and stranded after heavy rainfall led to floods sweeping through several parts of the town. This is the second major flood to hit the town in three…

In Ghana, residents of the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region have taken to the streets to protest for the reopening of the Aflao land border, which connects the residents to Togo.  The border, which has been closed for…

In Nigeria, the Plateau State government has re-imposed a 24-hour curfew on Jos North Local Government Area (LGA). This follows tensions sparked by an attack on Yelwa Zangam – a village in Zangam District of the state.  36 people were…

Niger’s Defence Minister Alkassoum Indatou told AFP on Wednesday that an attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger Republic’s jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16 soldiers and wounded nine others. The minister said in a statement that…

A magistrate court in the Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown has sentenced a Chinese man to imprisonment after he was found guilty of electricity theft. Li Shichao, who runs a mechanical workshop in the east end of the city, illegally tapped…

Exim Bank of India is opening a $170 million line of credit for the implementation of the Greater Conakry Drinking Water Supply Project-horizon 2040. The credit line is part of a $210.73 million financing package recently released by Exim Bank…

The United States, which funded the restoration of electricity to Liberia after the civil war in 2003, has decried widespread power theft in the country. According to the U.S. Embassy near Monrovia, the Liberia Electricity Corporation lost $220 million dollars…

The congestion of communities in Freetown has been an obstacle in the way of putting out fires on residential properties. Outbreaks in the city are recurrent, often resulting in widespread damage and loss of lives. In the latest incident on…

African governments pledged to support the World Health Organization African Region Office to end all remaining forms of poliovirus. The commitment came Thursday at a dedicated virtual meeting on polio at the Seventy-first WHO Regional Committee for Africa. While the…

Civil Society Organisations in the Gambia hailed President Adama Barrow for signing the Access to Information bill. The Gambian leader assented to the bill on Wednesday at the State House, the home of Gambia's presidency. Sankulleh Janko has more in…

The Inspector-General of the Nigerian Police Usman Baba has received the report of the Special Investigation Panel on the indictment of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The report was submitted…

The Inter-Religious Council of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to convene a national confab of critical stakeholders to fashion out lasting solutions to the lingering killings in especially Northern region of the country. The clerics, at the third…