The President of the Gambia Adama Barrow has announced a moratorium on death penalty as the country begins rebuilding its human rights records after the exit of longtime leader Yahya Jammeh.
Hundreds of people suspected of links to Boko Haram stood trial in a detention centre in central Nigeria on Monday in a resumption of the country’s biggest legal investigation of the militant Islamist insurgency, authorities said.
The 2017 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been awarded to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced today following a meeting of its independent Prize Committee.Â
Finding jobs for many youth is a major challenge especially in Africa and governments across the continent continue to struggle to create jobs for their unemployed populations.
The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau has announced that he is still in control of the territory that the Nigerian military claimed to have to have seized back from the group.
