West Africa

Fish farms in Ghana have been hit by the Infectious Spleen and Kidney Virus diseases in fish.The country's ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development...

Former Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Umaro Cissoko Embalo has won last year's presidential run-off election  with 54% of the vote.The electoral commission said on Wednesday...

Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has registered his new political party called the National People’s Party (NPP) with the country’s electoral commission.The Gambia Independent Electoral...

For years African innovators have struggled to get the backing of their own people.Often it is either because their inventions are deemed inferior or...

Ghana's government has given the strongest indication ever that it would in 2020 adopt the new single currency to be used by ECOWAS member...

Guinea-Bissau is holding second round of voting in a presidential run-off election that has two former prime ministers contesting.In the first round of voting,...

Ivorian officials have accused former rebel leader and presidential candidate, Guillaume Soro of plotting a coup.Soro who intends contesting the 2020 presidential election if...

Militants in Burkina Faso on Tuesday launched a deadly attack on a town killing 35 civilians. Local officials say 31 of those killed were women...

Ivorian prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for presidential candidate Guillaume Soro who aborted a planned return by diverting his flight to Ghana.The former...

Benin sentenced an investigative journalist to 18 months in prison on Tuesday for comments he posted on social media.Ignace Sossou quoted on his Facebook...