10 Gambian soldiers have been charged by a military court with treason and mutiny for allegedly plotting to overthrow the country's newly elected government led by President Adama Barrow.
Human rights group, Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the activities of Shell, the oil company for alleged crimes committed by Nigeria’s military in the 1990s.
Forty people are facing prosecution after police raids in west and central Africa rescued nearly 500 victims of human trafficking, Interpol said on Thursday.
Officials in Nigeria on Tuesday said that more than at least 50 people have died from a suicide bombing at a mosque in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Mubi in the state of Adamawa.
The Liberian electoral commission has rejected claims of electoral fraud raised by an opposition political party over presidential elections held in October.
Opposition supporters in Togo continue to hold street protests demanding that their president, Faure Gnassingbe exits power and make way for political reforms.
Pressure is mounting on Liberia to resolve its current political crisis after the Supreme Court ordered the country’s electoral commission to investigate claims of electoral fraud raised by an opposition political party.
