West Africa

The Gambian media for 22 years experienced all forms of harassment, abuses and threats to their work and all took place during the tenure...

Togo lawmakers have passed a new law that restricts demonstrations, in an attempt to clamp down on opposition rallies. Opposition parties have been agitating over...

Ghanaian football star, Asamoah Gyan has told local media that the national team coach Kwesi Appiah was not in charge of affairs during the...

A Nigerian High Court has ordered the detention of publisher of online news organisation, SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, for 45 days.Sowore is a well known...

Authorities of a northern Nigerian university have blamed students for the collapse of a bridge after they posed to take selfies on it.The deadly...

Unidentified security operatives in Ghana have seized four Indian businessmen in a dawn operation in a town called Ahodwo near Kumasi in the country's...

Ghanaian officials appear to be downplaying the severity of the illegal logging of rosewood in the country.Rosewood has been classified as endangered plant given...

Some unidentified soldiers in Nigeria have shot dead three police officers in a deadly attack.The soldiers also killed a civilian in the attack carried...

Disaster Management Officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed the death of at least seven people due to flooding.Over 8,000 people are also known to...

A Nigerian musician, Tekno, 26, has been arrested after video of him dancing with "half-naked" women in a truck in Lagos went viral.In a...