West Africa

The leader of Mali's military transitional government, created on Friday night a body in charge of writing a new Constitution. Colonel Assimi Goïta will be in charge of choosing the members of this committee who will have to present to…

Gunmen suspected to be terrorists who kidnapped passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna bound train in March have released 11 of the victims. A press statement signed by the minister of State, Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, said the 11 released passengers were…

Local authorities in Cameroon on Thursday announced that separatists in the southwest attacked and burned a district hospital. According to the officials, the incident on the night of Wednesday through Thursday morning took place in the Manyu department in the…

A traditional ruler rejects extra monetary benefits from the government. In Ghana, there is a growing concern over the government’s misspending of state resources on non-profitable ventures. This followed revelation by a former member of a constitutional advisory board to…

The World Bank in its 2021 report says the Gambia’s economy is set for moderate growth. The report also indicates that actions to strengthen governance and institutional structures will be key in the recovery process after a devastating Covid19 outbreak…

The Transitional Legislative Assembly of Burkina Faso has permitted the government of the country to rule by ordinances. The new law which was adopted on Monday seeks to empower the government to take decisions related to national defense and security.…

All Progressives Congress, APC is underway in the nation’s capital Abuja. Over two thousand three hundred party delegates are gathered at the venue, to decide through their votes, who becomes the party’s presidential flagbearer in the 2023 general elections. The…

In Cote d’Ivoire, a new president of the national assembly has been chosen. Adama Bigtogo was approached and supported by the Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and was elected president of the assembly by an overwhelming majority on Tuesday evening by…

In an unrelated development, Ghana’s minister of lands and natural resources says the country has lost up to 80 percent of its forest cover to activities of mining and illegal logging of trees.  The revelation comes as the government aims…

The minority in Ghana’s parliament has threatened to disrupt all government business in the legislature if the anti LGBTQ bill is not passed. According to the legislators, the chairman of the constitutional, legal and parliamentary affairs committee is dragging his…

Liberia’s unprecedented acute shortage of petroleum products has resulted in long queues at petrol stations across the country. Some buyers spend days taking turns to purchase the product in small quantities because of the high cost. WADR’s Darlington Porkpa has…

According to the World Bank (WB) report on The Gambia's Economic Update, inflation is projected to increase and reach 8% in 2022. This is due to global supply disruptions and high commodity prices which are expected to continue to rise.…