West Africa

Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is wasting no time to act on the just released 2019 Auditor General’s Report on the account of Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for the year ending December 2019, and another on funds allocated…

Ghana’s Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has disclosed that President Akufo-Addo is receiving briefings from the COVID-19 Technical Taskforce on limited school re-openings and will make a firm decision on whether or not schools should reopen in January by…

Some gunmen on Tuesday abducted all the passengers in an Abuja-bound commercial bus along the Benin-Auchi road in Edo State. The incident reportedly happened between the Ehor and Iruekpen axis of the busy highway. A commuter, who identified himself as…

The Governor of Nigeria’s Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has blamed the recent spike of abductions along the roads leading to his state on the Nigeria military, saying the army has failed to do their assigned jobs. Mr Zulum was reacting…

In Burkina Faso, new security measures allowed Malian refugees to return to a camp, nine months after being forced to leave the site. With the help of the United Nations Refugee Agency ( UNHCR ), 3,000 Malian refugees have returned to the…

The shortcomings and scarcity of data on migration have limited the capacity of the African Union (AU) Member States to conceive coherent migration policies.  Furthermore, the informal character of migratory movements, the porosity of borders and the complexity of the…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed release of kidnapped students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, describing their safe return as a big relief to their families, the entire country and international community. In a remark shortly after…

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio came to power in 2018, promising to tackle corruption in the public sector. He has since appointed commissions to probe the financial dealings of his predecessor, Ernest Bai Koroma and his government. But a…

The Bissau-Guinean authorities have issued an international arrest warrant against former Prime Minister – Domingos Simoes Pereira. The press release gives no details on the nature of the charges.  Domingos Simoes Pereira currently lives in exile in Portugal. He un-successfully…

The armed intervention of a self-defense group allowed the release of the 80 high school students kidnapped on Saturday evening in north-west Nigeria. According to the authorities, over 80 school-children returning to their village of Mahuta, Katsina state, were kidnapped…

The Gambia’s biggest political party, United Democratic Party (UDP), has re-elected former Vice President Lawyer Ousianou Darboe as Secretary General and party leader at the party's National Congress over the weekend. The party delegates endorsed Darboe’s bid to run for…

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is set to lead mediation talks on The Gambia's rejected constitution after a two day visit in Banjul. The former ECOWAS mediator in Mali is expected to mediate between different political parties to retable the…