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Former IAAF head Lamine Diack found guilty of corruption and jailed

Lamine Diack, the ex-head of athletics' governing body, has been jailed after being found guilty of corruption. The Senegalese, 87, faced corruption and money-laundering charges...

Gambia: Yahya Jammeh’s wife Zineb hit with US sanctions

The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday announced that sanctions have been imposed on Zineb Jammeh, the wife of Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh. In a statement...

Ecowas leaders fail to reach agreement with Mali junta

West African leaders have been unable to reach an agreement with military leaders of Mali who carried out a coup last month to topple...

Ecowas leaders hold summit on Mali’s political crisis

West African leaders are holding a meeting in Ghana's capital, Accra as they try to find a resolution to the current political crisis in...

Nigerian porn star arrested ‘for filming’ at sacred ground

A filmmaker has been arrested for allegedly recording a pornographic movie at the Osun Osogbo scared grove in western Nigeria, police say. The sacred forest,...

Ghana: Husbands risk going to jail for not eating wives’ food

Ghanaian husbands who refuse to eat food prepared by their wives risk going to jail for up to two years. Those men could also be...

Liberia: President Weah appoints special prosecutor for rape

Liberia's president, George Weah has declared that special prosecutor for rape will be appointed to deal with what has now been declared a national...

Top Ghanaian law professor ‘murdered’ at his home

Police in Ghana have launched an investigation into the mysterious death of one of the country's top law lecturers. The University of Ghana senior law...

Ghana: Dam spillage from Burkina Faso kills several farmers and livestock

There is disaster in some of Ghana’s regions up north as intense spillage from the Bagre dam in Burkina Faso kill several farmers and...

Nigerian state allows for the castration of convicted rapists

The Kaduna state in north-western Nigeria is allowing for full surgical castration of convicted rapists as punishment for their crime. The state assembly approved the...

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