West Africa

Sierra Leone is playing host to an ECOWAS Delegation on the Implementation of ECOWAS Humanitarian Law, Treaties and their National Implementation, trafficking in persons, Gender Based Violence and Child Rights texts in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. The five days…

The South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies Tuesday warned African states to act quickly to stop the restructuring of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the Lake Chad Basin. The institute warned in a new report that if they…

No fewer than six people have been killed during separate attacks carried out by gunmen in four communities in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, North Central Nigeria. This is coming as three more abducted students of the Bethel…

All is set for the #Fix The Country Demonstration in Accra today. This comes after several attempts by the government to prevent the demonstrators from hitting the streets against hardships being experienced in the country.  Last week, Ghanaians living in…

The Malian government and local officials say thirty-seven people were killed and several others injured when a bus collided with a lorry in central Mali during heavy rain on Tuesday. Road accidents are a regular occurrence in the country, where…

The African Union condemned Denmark’s recently passed Aliens Act, which provides for Denmark to relocate asylum seekers to countries outside the European Union while their cases are being processed. The legislation, which was approved on June 3, is the latest…

Medical Doctors in Government-owned hospitals across Nigeria Monday downed tools following a notice issued by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). According to the notice, the strike action, which has already commenced in most hospitals in the country, is…

The secretary of the High Commission for Covid-19 in Guinea-Bissau on Monday said that the increase in cases in the country is “worrying” and noted that it is related to the lack of compliance with prevention measures. Sankulleh Janko reports.

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has asked the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG) to suspend their separate strike actions and come to the negotiating table for talks. In two…

Several students of the State-run University of Liberia have sustained injuries following clashes with riot police officers over the imposition of an e-learning program. The students under the banner “Student Unification Party” are resisting the introduction of an e-learning program…

Aid groups say charity ships rescued nearly 450 migrants from a wooden boat that was taking on water in the Mediterranean Sea. They add that dozens of mostly Tunisian migrants reached the Italian island of Sardinia unaided on Sunday. Abdullahi…

Senegal over the weekend recorded over 1,700 covid19 new infections and over 30 deaths according to the Ministry of Health and Social Action. The new infections come from virological tests carried out on a sample of 7,331 individuals, corresponding to…