West Africa

A U.N. monitoring committee is urging Benin Republic to address alleged discrimination against minority and marginalized groups.  The committee released findings this week on progress in seven countries whose records were under review. Abdullahi Hassan reports:

African nations have been reminded of the need to develop strategies to address climate change, which poses an existential threat to the continent’s megacities, Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba said at the third Africa Climate Week conference. President Bongo said…

The World Health Organization says with the colder weather approaching in the northern hemisphere, there would likely be an increase in hospitalizations and deaths from the covid19 pandemic in the coming months. According to the UN health agency, vaccination coverage…

The Ghanaian government says it will not review the free senior high school policy despite the budgetary constraints on the economy. President Nana Akufo-Addo addressing the leadership of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) Wednesday at the jubilee house…

Nigeria's government has launched an empowerment campaign to provide technical and vocational Education for fifteen thousand youths across the country. The project dubbed T-MAX is aimed at closing the unemployment gap and lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by…

The Liberian senate has voted to approve the conduct of the delayed national population and Housing census beginning October this year. The census earlier scheduled for 2020, failed due to a series of challenges including a lack of funds by…

International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday says the number of missing children is on the rise on the continent. In a statement released on the eve of this year's International Day of Missing Persons, the organization reports that there…

Nigeria’s state oil firm, NNPC, has accused government officials, religious leaders, security agencies and even some staff of the nation’s crude oil theft. Speaking during the 49th session of the weekly ministerial briefly at the State House in Abuja, Head…

In Ghana, Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology are challenging the decision by management of the school to suspend executives of the various halls of residency at the university. The suspension follows the bloody clashes between…

Members of the House of Representatives of Liberia are concerned about the alarming land conflicts facing the country over the last few years. Land conflicts according to the lawmakers is grossly undermining the peace and stability of the country hence…

Ghana’s Roads and Highways Minister , Kwesi Amoako Atta, says the country's precarious financial situation has made it difficult for his ministry to fix the many deplorable roads in the country.  Taking his turn before Parliament's Government Assurances Committee, Kwesi…

Liberia's government is calling on the Omani government to halt the issuance of visas to Liberian job seekers for domestic work in Oman. Speaking during a zoom meeting with Humaid Al Maani, Head of Global Affairs Department at the Foreign…