West Africa

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.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday signed the 2017 budget almost four weeks after the National Assembly transmitted the appropriation bill to the presidency. At...

Pope Francis, leader of the world’s Roman Catholic faithful has warned priests in Nigeria to accept a 2012 appointment of a bishop or risk...

A French soldier has been jailed for a year by a court in Paris for molesting girls aged three and five in a hotel...

African Union chairperson Alpha Conde on Sunday put himself forward as a mediator in the crisis between Qatar and other Gulf countries, urging dialogue...

Ghana has been named as one of the three countries in Africa to benefit from the Germany’s “Compact with Africa” Program. The  program  will assist...

Eight Month into pregnancy, I felt desperate for help, I needed help to be able to care for my two other children, I needed...

Ghana is struggling to deal with an emerging trend of angry mobs lynching persons suspected to have committed crimes in their communities. The gruesome murder...

Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to fly home from London and arrive back in the country on Saturday, two presidency sources said, ending...