West Africa

Findings of a survey in Nigeria suggest that rates of infection from Covid-19 in the country are much higher than previously reported. The results indicate that one in five of those tested in the states of Lagos, Enugu and Nasarawa have been infected. In the country’s largest city, Lagos, as …

Guinean health authorities have postponed an Ebola vaccination roll out that was to begin on Monday due to bad weather. The plane carrying 11,000 World Health Organization vaccines was unable to land at the Conakry-Gebessia International Airport on Sunday because of bad weather conditions. On Facebook, Guinea’s health ministry said …

Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian President expressed his condolences to the families of the seven soldiers who died in a plane crash near a runway in Abuja the capital. The chief of the Air staff has ordered an immediate investigation. According to the Nigerian Air Forces, the families of all the …

They were in total seven soldiers to lose their lives in a plane crash short of a runway in Abuja, the capital Sunday morning. The army spokesman in a Tweet said that the Nigerian Air Force reported that crash is due to engine failure. The plane was on the way …

A suspected case of Ebola in Liberia has been detected in a woman who came from the Guinean town of Nzérékoré, which is in the region of a new outbreak of the virus. According to the Liberian Health Minister Wilhelmina Jallah specimens had been collected from the woman who is …

Niger state where the incident occurred shares a boundary with the FCT, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, which is the most protected territory in Nigeria. So the government has acknowledged that it knew about this attack and security chiefs have been dispatched to Kigara Niger state to coordinate the rescue …

In order to fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Senegal has received 200,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from Chinese company Sinopharm. President Macky Sall said the government bought the vaccine, and did not wait to receive doses from the World Health Organization’s Covax scheme, which aims to make it easier …

The new Ivorian Minister in charge of reconciliation Kouadjo Konan Bertin alias KKB could soon go to Europe in order to meet Charles Ble Goude and perhaps Laurent Gbagbo. Acquitted at first instance by the ICC while waiting to return to their country, the Ivory Coast, the two personalities will …

Gunmen have stormed a boys boarding secondary school in Nigeria and abducted some students and staff, reports from the north-central town of Kagara in Niger state say. A local official at the school said that the gunmen attacked the institution in the early hours of Wednesday. He said a number …

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Abdulrasheed Bawa to head the country’s anti-corruption agency. The president has forwarded Mr Bawa’s name to the senate for confirmation as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). If confirmed, the 40 year-old will be the agency‘s youngest chief since its establishment …