West Africa

Nigeria's government has confirmed that 110 school girls from north eastern part of the country are missing days after Boko Haram militants attacked a girls’ boarding school in the Yobe state of Nigeria.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has asked his party leadership to give him more time to decide whether or not he will seek re-election in 2019.

Some parents in northern Nigeria have said that more than 100 girls are still missing three days after Boko Haram militants attacked a girls’ boarding school in the Yobe state of Nigeria.

Ghanaian officials have announced the arrest of a Tanzanian woman for carrying narcotic drugs with street value of $70,000.

The Nigerian army has said that some of the schoolgirls missing after a militant attack on a girls’ boarding school in the Yobe state of Nigeria have been rescued.

Boko Haram has attacked a girls' school in the Yobe state of Nigeria with fears that several school girls might have been abducted as they are uncounted for.

The President of Liberia George Weah has announced that his country is "broke" and depleted by bad governance.

Heads of State from the Economic Community of West Africa States ECOWAS are meeting in Accra on Wednesday in a bid to fast track processes towards meeting the 2020 target for the introduction of a single currency ECO.

Farming employs the majority of people in most African countries and the agricultural sector provides the backbone to the economy in many of these countries.

A donor pre-engagement on Gambia’s new National Development Plan (NDP), is scheduled to take place in Dakar, Senegal from 20 to 22 February 2018. Following the election of President Adama Barrow in December 2016, the country has a new window of opportunity to lay the foundations for a modern democratic state and key reforms for sustainable growth.