West Africa

Senegal navy searches for dozens lost after migrant boat capsizes

Dakar – The Senegalese navy was carrying out a search and rescue mission on Saturday after a boat carrying about... Read more

29 Aug, 2021

Bamako – Former Malian interim president Bah Ndaw and his prime minister Moctar Ouane have been freed from house arrest,... Read more

28 Aug, 2021

Ouagadougou –Burkina Faso on Friday said that it would overhaul its security forces to cope with a six-year old... Read more

28 Aug, 2021

Minna – Nearly 100 Nigerian schoolchildren kidnapped from an Islamic seminary three months ago were reunited with their parents... Read more

27 Aug, 2021

Banjul – The Gambia has formally blocked flights returning migrants deported from the EU, a sensitive political issue in the... Read more

27 Aug, 2021

Katsina – Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in... Read more

27 Aug, 2021

Matadi – Democratic Republic of Congo’s auditors have accused a provincial governor of siphoning off $8.7 million, attacking a budgetary... Read more

26 Aug, 2021

Niamey – An attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger’s jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16... Read more

26 Aug, 2021

Dakar – Former Chadian president Hissene Habre, who died from Covid-19 on Tuesday aged 79, will be buried on... Read more

26 Aug, 2021

Abidjan – A young Guinean woman who tested positive for the Ebola virus in Ivory Coast after arriving there two... Read more

25 Aug, 2021