West Africa

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo recalled the harmful effects of the slave trade for the African continent and demanded an apology from Europe for Africans. The tenant of the Jubile House said slavery stifled the economic, cultural and psychological progress of Africa. According to the President, when the British ended slavery, …

Police in the central Nigerian state of Nassarawa announced the arrest of six people on suspicion of operating a fraudulent dating site for same-sex couples, the BBC reported. The suspects, four men and two women are said to have used the site to woo their victims before robbing them. The …

A young mum in Nigeria sold her six-week-old baby to an orphanage for 200,000 naira for an unbelievable reason, sparking outrage in the country, local media have reported. According to local press, the 23-year-old mother used some of the money to buy a cell phone. Later arrested by Edo State …

Health authorities in Ghana have confirmed the first-ever death from monkeypox, as the virus wreaks havoc in the West African country. The infected person was a military officer who died three days after going to hospital in north-eastern Ghana. Thirteen people believed to have been in contact with the deceased …

A combined team of Ghanaian Police and Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Task Force demolished the Apostolic Movers and Shakers Chapel building in Dansoman on Monday for operating without a permit, Pulse news agency reported. This follows an earlier warning by the AMA to the Church to vacate the area in …

A 39-year-old Nigerian street vendor, Alika Ogorchukwu, was shot dead in broad daylight on a shopping street in the Italian seaside town of Civitanova, RFI reported. His attacker, a 32-year-old Italian, was filmed by passers-by for four long minutes, without anyone intervening to help the seller. On the images, we …

Nigerian Police Inspector General, Usman Baba, issued a warning to film producers who used to portray police officers in a bad light, without prior permission. Inspector General Usman Baba says movie scenes of actors in police uniforms must now be approved as set out in law and defaulters will be …

Ghana’s gender minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has been relieved of her duties after more than a year of continuous absence from work. The presidency did not state the exact reason for her sacking in a press release, but it could be due to her continuous absence, which has raised concerns …

A supposed phone seller was arrested by the police in Grand-Yoff (commune of Dakar) following the complaint of his girlfriend’s mother, reports seneweb.com. The respondent sent his 16-year-old girlfriend to prostitute herself with a 53-year-old French national at the price of 50,000F CFA, the sexual intercourse. The young man was …

At least 18 people, including 15 members of the Malian security forces, have been killed in coordinated attacks in the southwest of the country where jihadist insurgency is raging, the army said. Assaults on military camps in Sokolo and near Kalumba were repulsed with almost 50 militants being killed. A …