West Africa

People walk past bags of animal food at the cattle market in Maiduguri. Photo File Credit: ReutersOfficials in Nigeria have confirmed on Monday that...

Nigeria's army has captured a key Boko Haram camp, the Islamist militant group's last enclave in the vast Sambisa forest that was its stronghold,...

An excavator is seen at the site of the collapse of of a two-storey building in a police training college in Ikeja district, Lagos,...

There are indications the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) will apply force in getting embattled president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh out of power...

Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) campaign in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo Credit: Reuters Nigerian authorities are involved in negotiations aimed at securing the release of some of...

Security officials in Ghana have confirmed that at least nine people dead in a gas explosion in the country’s capital Accra on Thursday night.The...

James Ibori was jailed for 13 years in 2012 for money-laundering offences. Photo Credit: Metropolitan Police. James Ibori, a former Nigerian state governor jailed in...

Judges from Nigeria and Sierra Leone have been appointed by Gambia officials to sit on the election petition filed by the party of the...

Ghana's president-elect Nana Akufo-Addo said on Wednesday he would focus on restoring stability, cutting taxes and interest rates and spurring double-digit growth, in his...

There have been many salient issues that we at Nigeria Health Watch have drawn to our audience's attention in the span of 2016. As...