•ECOWAS The Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to hold an Extraordinary Session from today, Tuesday, April 22 to tomorrow, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Accra, Ghana, to deliberate on the formal withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger from the regional bloc. According to a statement [&hell...
•The junta Banks and gas stations that had gone on strike in Mali called off their action yesterday after reaching an agreement with the junta, the union and the government said. The National Union of Banks, Insurance Companies, Financial Institutions, Retailers, and Gas Stations (Synabef) had stopped work on Thursday to demand the release of ...
•Pastor Josh Sullivan A US missionary abducted from his church last week has been rescued by police after a shoot-out in which three suspects were killed, South African police said today. Josh Sullivan, 45, was taken at gunpoint last Thursday while he was delivering a sermon at the Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell outside the […]...
•Ghana President John Dramani Mahama Amnesty International has called on the Ghanaian government to take immediate action to protect hundreds of people, primarily women, who are being subjected to rampant human rights abuses due to accusations of witchcraft. The rights group, in a statement released today, highlighted the severe risks faced by...
•Pastor Josh Sullivan Gunmen in South Africa have abducted a US missionary from his church as he was delivering a sermon, police and a colleague said today. Pastor Josh Sullivan was abducted late yesterday at the Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell outside the coastal city of Gqeberha in what appeared to be a kidnapping for […]
•President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe A Zimbabwean court denied bail today for nearly 100 people arrested 10 days ago for allegedly protesting against the rule of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Police rounded up the 95 men and women on March 31 at a small protest in central Harare mobilised by a veteran of the ruling ZANU-PF […]
•General Abdourahamane Tiani (2nd L), the head of the military regime in Niger Niger military government has officially made Hausa the country’s new national language, moving away from its colonial past where French played a central role. The change was announced in a new charter released on March 31, published in a special edition of [&hellip...
Kenya’s government urged vigilance today as it tackles a cholera outbreak that has killed at least five people, a health ministry official said. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that spreads through contaminated food and water and typically causes severe diarrhoea, vomiting and muscle cramps. It is especially dangerous for young childr...
•Dollar notes The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Commission has revealed that the African continent is currently losing $88.6 billion yearly to corruption and illicit financial flows. The commission’s Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah, who disclosed this yesterday in Niger S...
•Captain Ibrahim Traoré Burkina Faso’s president, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has declared that his country is not operating under a democratic system but is undergoing what he described as a “popular, progressive revolution.” Speaking during a flag-raising ceremony at the Koulouba Palace recently, Traoré challenged the widely held belief that dem...
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