West Africa

The army in Mali says it has killed 100 jihadists in a joint offensive with French forces. In a statement, Mali’s military said another 20 Islamists were captured in the operation, which ran throughout January. Militants control large parts of the Sahel desert region. Since an Islamist insurgency erupted in …

Prosecutors in Finland say a man from Sierra Leone has been charged with crimes against humanity, over his role in Liberia’s civil war two decades ago. Gibril Ealoghima Massaquoi is accused of killing civilians and soldiers who had just been disarmed when he was a senior member of a rebel …

Former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings will lie in state from Monday in the capital, Accra, although strict Covid-19 protocols will be in place for people who want to pay their respects. John Jerry Rawlings, who was Ghana’s longest-serving leader, died in November, aged 73, after a short illness. Funeral events …

The Nigerian police say they are hunting for a group of gunmen who attacked an orphanage and kidnapped at least six children in Abuja, the capital. The gunmen stormed the orphanage in Abaji area on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. They kidnapped children are aged between 10 and …

AstraZeneca vaccine is the one choosen by the Malian government to fight against the covid-19 pandemic in the country. The government intends to immunize 4.2 million people by the start of April. Health minister Fanta Siby said on Friday that the vaccination would first target medical staff, the elderly and …

A 45-year-old Nigerian man has been sentenced to two years in prison for spending 2million Naira that had been erroneously transferred into his account, the country’s anti-corruption agency says. The judge in the south-western city of Ilorin also ordered Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, who had pleaded guilty, to repay the sum …

The information is reported by our colleagues of Beninwebtv. According to the online media, health workers and nurses were arrested by the police for not wearing a mask in the Departmental University Hospital Center of Borgou on Monday, January 18. According to the departmental director of health , Ibrahim Mama …

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the equivalent of $17m for the construction of 38 oxygen plants across the country. The West African country is grappling with a shortage of oxygen for Covid-19 patients amidst a second wave of the pandemic. The number of Covid-19 patients in need of oxygen …

Sierra Leone is to impose a nationwide curfew and restrict travel in and out of the capital, Freetown, the Reuters news agency quotes the government as saying. The restrictions are being imposed because of an exponential rise in Covid-19 cases after the holiday season. From Monday, people wanting to leave …

Like other countries, Nigeria announces its own vaccine to fight against the coronavirus pandemic. It announces on Monday a project of 10 Billion Naira( $ 25,3m) to support the national production of vaccine in order to fight against the coronavirus pandemic throughout the territory. During a press conference in Abuja …