West Africa

As West Africa declares war on the market for expired and counterfeit medicines, start-ups are putting quality control in the hands of patients to...

Heavy vehicles move towards the Korle Lagoon close to the Volta Lake in Accra. They have come to dump liquid waste into the lagoon which...

Angry residents in Gambia’s Kanifing municipality turned their mayor’s office into a rubbish dump over the weekend in protest against poor waste management in...

Ghana’s Science and Technology University called the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has built a solar-powered 4×4 vehicle.Ghana’s News Agency reported...

Loyalists of former Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh are reported to be posing security threat to the new government of the West African country.According to...

Ghana's first satellite called Ghansat-1 was on Friday released into orbit after its successful launch in June.Ghanasat-1 was launched into International Space Station (ISS)...

The Mental Health Authority of Ghana has taken steps to release 18 people, including two girls, held in shackles at Nyakumasi Prayer Camp, a spiritual healing center in...

The five teenage students from Gambia who were refused visas by the United States in April have now been granted visas after attending a...

Soldiers in Niger killed 14 unarmed civilians after mistaking them for Boko Haram militants during a patrol in the remote southeast of the country,...

Nigerian authorities have launched an investigation into claims that a teenager survived 12 hours hidden in the wheel compartment of a plane between Lagos...