Mali says has caught up on debt payments
Bamako – Mali announced on Friday it had “settled all unpaid” debt repayments after tough sanctions imposed by West... Read more
13 Aug, 2022
Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo pushes for amnesty with eye on 2025 vote
Abidjan – President Alassane Ouattara last week lifted the shadow of a jail sentence over his erstwhile bitter rival... Read more
13 Aug, 2022
Senegal president’s camp keeps absolute majority in parliament
Dakar – Senegalese President Macky Sall’s coalition narrowly won last month’s legislative election, according to final results, but has... Read more
13 Aug, 2022
Burkina junta says army to win back areas lost to rebels
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso’s army will deploy a new strategy to push back jihadist insurgents and recapture lost territory,... Read more
13 Aug, 2022
Eleven died in Gambia’s worst floods in 50 years
Banjul – The Gambia suffered its worst flooding in “nearly half a century” late last month, killing 11 people... Read more
13 Aug, 2022
Cameroon troops ‘summarily killed’ 10 in crackdown, says HRW
Libreville – Troops in Cameroon’s Northwest Region have “summarily killed” at least 10 people in a crackdown against anglophone... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Senegal arrests 143 migrants headed for Europe
Dakar – Senegal’s paramilitary police has arrested 143 migrants in two seaside swoops as they prepared to embark in... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Burkina Faso allows ex-leader Kabore to travel abroad ‘on medical grounds’
Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso has allowed ex-president Roch Marc Christian Kabore to leave the country for the first time... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Calm returns to Sierra Leone as protest death toll rises
Freetown – Calm returned to Sierra Leone on Thursday a day after an economic protest spiralled into violence the... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
Guinea to prosecute ex-PM over alleged embezzlement
Conakry – Guinea will prosecute former prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana over the alleged embezzlement of more than $4... Read more
12 Aug, 2022
