Millions of euros of assets belonging to the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president were ordered to be seized by a French court that found him guilty in absentia on Friday of using money plundered from his country to buy property and luxury cars.
The leading contender in Liberia’s presidential run-off election for next month, George Weah has received the support of an ex-warlord Prince Johnson.
There is an out-pour of anger from Ghanaians over the defilement of a four-year-old girl in central Ghana by a young man with the alleged perpetrator being freed by traditional leaders.
Cosmetics making company Nivea has taken down its campaign billboard in Ghana which came under a lot of criticisms for promoting the sale of skin-lightening creams.
Leaders of the West African sub-region have decided to speed up efforts at institutionalizing a common currency for bloc after meeting in Niamey, Niger.
The Gambia has joined the opposition in Togo to call on Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe to resign as agitations continue in the West African nation for an end to the Gnassingbe dynasty which has lasted for 50 years.
At least 13 people have been killed in three suicide bomb attacks in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri with 16 others sustaining serious injuries.
An international campaign has been launched by some Gambians seeking to have their former President Yahya Jammeh who is currently in exile in Equatorial Guinea brought to justice.
A 31-year-old Ghanaian who was arrested in Bonn, Germany for allegedly raping a woman at knife point in April this year has been convicted of rape and jailed for 11 and a half years.
