West Africa

Rastafarians in Ghana are on a collision course with the country's agency responsible for issuance of drivers’ license.The group is accusing the Driver and...

A Nigerian woman is among four people executed on Monday in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking offence.Local media in Saudi Arabia report that three...

A group of young Ghanaians has started translating Wikipedia pages into Ghana’s foremost local language “Akan”.The language also referred to by some as “Twi”...

The World Bank Group has pledged more commitment towards social projects in Ghana to alleviate poverty there.The bank's Vice President for Africa Dr Hafez...

Lawmakers in Ghana finally passed the ‘Right to Information’ (RTI) Bill this week after a number of failed attempts in the past.The legislation which...

A new report by the World Bank says 76 percent of Africans see entrepreneurship as a good career choice.The report dubbed "Profiting from Parity:...

Over 130 Fulani villagers in two towns in Mali were killed on Saturday by gunmen.It is the deadliest of attacks to hit central Mali,...

Ghana's finance ministry on Friday held a food party in the capital Accra to celebrate what it describes as significant economic successes.On a poster...

Chadian security officials say at least 23 Chadian soldiers have been killed by Boko Haram militants.The soldiers were killed overnight in an attack being...

Over 60 people are reported dead in a road crash involving two passenger buses in Ghana's Bono East region.According to police officials the accident...