West Africa

An 80 year old man from Ghana, Togbui Kofi Asilenu has spent his life for the past 40 years giving birth to over 100...

A Ghana native who was arrested in April after telling his date that he was a terrorist and would blow up her University of...

At least five women suspected of abducting and selling a boy for less than $2000 have been arrested by police in Nigeria. According to local...

Five female suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 11 in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, birthplace of the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency, police...

Young girls and women from Nigeria are being trafficked to Ghana and lured into prostitution by a syndicate under the pretext of securing them...

The security minister of Mali on Monday confirmed the killing of five militants involved in an attack at the weekend on a luxury resort...

Gunmen on Sunday attacked a luxury resort popular with Western expatriates just outside Mali's capital, Bamako, killing two people in what the security minister...

The Gambian government has shut down a former pro-government newspaper, the Daily Observer, for not paying taxes since 2007 during regime of exiled former...

Sixty-three Ghanaians deported from the United States of America have arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra. Starr News gathers that, the Ghanaians were...

ENGIE and eleQtra a developer of power and transportation projects in sub-Saharan Africa, signed a Joint Development Agreement that defines the terms and the schedule for the development and construction of the 50 MW Ada Wind power project in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana. The project is expected to require an investment of approximately $120 million and to start operations early 2019. ENGIE will enter as a 40% partner in the project.