West Africa

In an absolutely stunning development, the economy of Ghana has been given a boost after the official team of creditors, with China and France at the helm, offered financing guarantees and vowed to negotiate the restructuring of the…

In a shocking incident, fifteen innocent children met their untimely demise while twenty-five others went missing after their boat, which was overloaded, capsized on a river in the northwestern region of Nigeria. The children were…

The dire situation in South Africa cannot be understated. With catastrophic power outages, woefully inadequate infrastructure, a lack of effective governance at all levels, and rampant corruption, the country is no longer at risk of…

On Monday, a senior church leader reported that gunmen had attacked a Northwest Nigerian Baptist church, abducting 25 worshipers during a Sunday service. Unfortunately, this is not a unique incident in Nigeria, where insecurity poses one of…

On Monday, a group of five Nigerian judges gathered to hold a hearing involving opposition leaders who are disputing the results of the February presidential election won by the ruling party. It's worth noting that since Nigeria returned to…

The Senegalese opposition honcho, Ousmane Sonko, has put his foot down and proclaimed that he shall no longer comply with court summons without the assurance of his personal safety, creating a hair-raising atmosphere with two legal cases…

In an astonishing twist of events, the police in Nigeria announced on Sunday that they had successfully rescued not one, not 10, but a whopping 58 people who had been kidnapped by criminal groups in the central Kogi state. Reports indicated…

Breaking news: A shocking and unprecedented case in the UK sees Nigeria's former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison for conspiring to harvest the kidney of a vulnerable man for his…

The African space industry is finally taking off after years on the sidelines, with countries hoping to reap the rewards of space technology for agriculture, disaster prevention, and security. Ivory Coast recently hosted a mind-blowing…

In Ivory Coast, discussions have opened between Henri Konan Bédié's PDCI and Laurent Gbagbo's PPA-CI, five months before the regional and municipal elections. Negotiations are accelerating in order to present joint candidates in certain…