West Africa

Nigerian separatist leader Sunday Igboho on the run after gun battle

Sunday Igboho, a Nigerian separatist activist known for stocking ethnic tensions is on the run after a police raid... Read more

2 Jul, 2021

Soaring food prices are having dramatic consequences in Nigeria as many families are being pushed into poverty, with some... Read more

2 Jul, 2021

Senegalese monks are seeling God through kora music. Seven times a day, they lift their hands in supplication before... Read more

2 Jul, 2021

Thirteen Boko Haram fighters have been killed in clashes in southeast Niger while four civilians have been executed by... Read more

2 Jul, 2021

Nigeria has voted to approve a long-delayed oil and gas law that aims to attract new foreign investment in... Read more

1 Jul, 2021

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has sacked two of his ministers over recent massacres there that have... Read more

1 Jul, 2021

Gabon has sentenced three soldiers, who were behind a failed coup in 2019, to 15 years in prison. The... Read more

1 Jul, 2021

Togo has turned to the private sector for cotton revival as it strives to resuscitate its struggling cotton industry,... Read more

30 Jun, 2021

General ‘Butt Naked’, the former Liberian rebel notorious for sacrificing children and charging into battle in the nude, now... Read more

30 Jun, 2021

Nigerian separatists are demanding “justice and fair hearing” after their leader Nnamdi Kanu was detained after he was brought... Read more

30 Jun, 2021