West Africa

Nigerian railway workers have started a three-day strike, launched by the Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NUR), to push the government to improve their living and working conditions. The strike is likely to disrupt services in some of the busy stations, including the railway line that links the northern Kaduna …

At least 21 people were killed Tuesday night during an attack led by gunmen on motorbikes in the north-western Nigerian state of Sokoto on several villages in Sabon Birni area. The state’s police spokesperson, Sanusi Abubakar, confirmed the killings but said they were still gathering details. According to villagers, the …

Nigerian artist Davido has shared a screengrab of his bank account on Twitter saying that fans have sent millions of naira an hour after he asked them to. “If u know I’ve given you a hit song .. send me money,” Davido tweeted before he started sharing updates of how …

Hundreds of Burkinabé were in the streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, demanding the resignation of President Roch Kaboré, on Tuesday. “We are simply asking President Kaboré to leave,” said protest organizer Mohamed Komsongo. Protesters accuse the president of failing to subdue Islamists in the north and east …

Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead at least 15 civilians early on Monday and injured scores of others in Sokoto state, northwest Nigeria, local media reported. The state governor, Aminu Tambuwal, who confirmed the attacks in a statement, said 13 of the victims were killed in the town of Illela on …

The Nigerian businessman, Sani Dangote, brother and business deputy to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has died on Sunday, the Dangote Group has announced. The cause of his death has not been mentioned but local media report he died in the US after a long period of sickness. In a …

A student at the University of Ilorin has been arrested after being accused of beating a female teacher to a coma, police in Nigeria said. According to the police, the student had gone to see the supervisor over his final year project work when a disagreement ensued. He allegedly attacked …

The Islamic State (IS) has confirmed that it carried out an attack in Borno state in Nigeria where four soldiers including and an army general on Saturday. Islamists have waged a devastating insurgency in the country’s north-east for more than a decade. Read also: Ethiopia: Anthony Blinken fears the war …

The police in Nigeria say they have arrested 14 people who allegedly raided the residence of one of Nigeria’s Supreme Court judges, Justice Mary Odili. The arrest followed an investigation that found that the suspects included a journalist, an lslamic scholar and people pretending to be police officers, a police …

Parliament in Ghana has opened its doors to the public in order to express its opinions in an anti-gay bill, widely supported in the country. The bill proposes a five-year jail term for lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT+) people and a 10-year term for promoters and advocates of LGBT+ activities, …