West Africa

The Nigerian Military has raided and destroyed some criminal hideouts in Benue State with 12 bandits killed and arms recovered in the process. The criminals were reported to have attacked military troops around Bonta village and adjourning communities in Konshisha…

President Adama Barrow on Thursday appointed a new police chief. Abdoulie Sanyang was appointed as the new Inspector General of the Gambia Police Force, replacing former IGP Momar Jobe, who died in March following a brief illness. WADR's Sankulleh Janko…

The UN peacekeeping chief told the Security Council on Tuesday that ‘blue helmets’, the Malian Defence and Security Forces, continue to suffer repeated attacks and significant losses, while some large towns “live under constant threat from armed groups”. The attacks…

An ex-presidential guard and a militiaman who fought for jailed former Liberia President Charles Taylor, have testified before the Finnish court that commander and a spokesperson for the notorious Sierra Leone rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front, Gibril Massaquoi, ordered…

Scores of disenchanted Liberian mourners under the banner: Citizens United against Secret Killings (CUASK), have entered day 3, wearing black against what they call the growing wave of mysterious deaths and “secret killings” in the country. On Monday, the group…

Some one thousand, six hundred and seventy-nine reports of adverse side effects of the Covishield vaccines have been recorded in Ghana after some four hundred and ninety thousand doses were administered. This was disclosed by the Food and Drugs Authority…

After the publication of a UN report that implicates France in a military blunder that killed several civilians in Mali, the French government has decided to increase aid to Mali to 6 million euros this year. France's deputy ambassador to…

Latest statistics from the Motor Traffic & Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, indicates that 2021 road accident deaths have so far surpassed the total number of Covid-19 casualties since March 2020. These deaths represent a 29.58% increase…

Over 35 thousand people have been inoculated against the coronavirus in Sierra Leone. The vaccination exercise roll out started on March 22, with many of those vaccinated experiencing only mild side effects. While the country has received over ninety thousand…

The leadership of the judiciary workers’ union in Nigeria are expected to hold their first meeting to review the strike this weekend. The crippling nationwide strike embarked upon by judiciary workers which has led to the shutdown of courts almost…

A witness in the case of former militia leader Amadé Ouérémi has accused the suspect of being behind several of the Duékoué massacres. Described as one of the worst massacres during 2011 post-election violence in Ivory Coast, human rights groups…

Liberia on Monday, April 5, became the first country in Africa to introduce the new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its Expanded Program for Immunization. The ministry of health says the vaccine will be introduced to children nationwide in April…