West Africa

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will give his Senegalese counterpart an “exhaustive” explanation as to what is happening to Ukrainian grain when the two meet later on Friday, Reuters reports the Kremlin as saying. Senegalese President Macky Sall, acting as African Union chairman, is in Russia to discuss the food crisis …

Two Red Cross workers were killed on Wednesday after their was attacked by unidentified armed men in western Mali, Reuters agency reported, citing the organisation. Armed men on motorcycles opened fire on the vehicle in the region of Kayes, the Malian Red Cross said in a statement. The driver, who …

Nigerian authorities banned the sale and consumption of bushmeat as a precautionary measure to stop the spread of monkeypox in the country. It comes a few days after Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said six cases had been detected this month. Of the suspected cases, according to the centre, …

Professor of Governance at Central University of Ghana, Dr Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah said the President Nana Addo they once knew is not the same person they see now. The lecturer has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider reshuffling his ministers who are becoming complacent and inactive on the job. …

Police in Ghana arrested 18 people over the public flogging of a pair at the palace of a traditional chief in Wa in the northern Upper West region, local media reported. The victims of the flogging, a man and woman, are reported to have been lovers. They were each tied …

Military leaders in Guinea affirmed that no march will be “authorized as long as the guarantees of supervision are not met”, according to a decree read in state media on Tuesday evening. . In the decree, the transitional government first recalled that “respect for public freedoms has always been its …

Mali has denied allegations in a United Nations report that its national army (Fama) carried out human rights violations. A report by the country’s UN mission, Minusma, released last week highlighted alleged gross rights abuses by the Malian army between January and March this year. It attributed to Fama an …

More than 500 civilians died in attacks carried out by armed forces and Islamist groups in Mali from January to March this year, the United Nations said in a report on Monday. The report detailed a rapid unravelling of an already desperate security situation. The killings represented a 324% rise …

A 17-year-old male student of the Sokode Senior High School in the Volta Regional Capital, Ho, has died after being struck by lightning, local media reported. The incident occurred during a downpour in the late hours of Monday. The deceased, identified as Emmanuel Dorli, was reportedly hit by a thunder …

Ghanaian police arrested a 21-year-old woman for allegedly flushing her one-day-old baby down a pit toilet on Friday, May 27, Pulse news agency reported. She was arrested by the Jasikan Police together with an elderly woman, believed to be her mother, who is said to have helped the 21-year-old to …