West Africa

The head of Guinea’s junta, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, has appointed former opposition leader Mamadou Oury Bah as the country’s prime minister. The nomination comes a week after the interim president Doumbouya dissolved the government. His first task will be to resolve the current social crisis in the country. Trade unions …

Suspected hoodlums have stabbed a 33-year-old freelance photographer in Tundun Fulani Area of Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. “The hoodlums have trailed Salawadeen to his house and stabbed him many times in the presence of his three children,” according to reports. “The killers forced their way intoapartment and killed him,” according …

A Senegalese commission responsible for national dialogue has suggested holding elections in June as a way to end the political crisis the country is going through. Senegal’s national dialogue commission also recommends that President Macky Sall remain in office until his successor is sworn in, commission member Ndiawar Paye said …

A popular Nigerian cast member of the US reality dating TV show 90 Day Fiancé has been missing in the US since last Friday, his wife says. Michael Ilesanmi’s whereabouts remain unknown after he left the house he shared with his wife without his belongings, his wife, Angela Deem, said …

A 34-year-old man is on the run after allegedly killing his younger brother’s pregnant wife in the Bibiani Anhweaso Bekwai Municipality of the Western North Region, Ghana. “The deceased was found with multiple cutlass wounds on her throat, neck, hand, and back but it is not clear what triggered the …

A 30-year-old Nigerian has been arrested for sodomizing a 12-year-old boy at Kasoa Adade in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central region, Ghana. “The suspect lives in the same vicinity with the victim and is well-known to his family,” according to reports. “The suspect lures the boy with …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced the lifting of sanctions imposed on the Republic of Guinea, following the overthrow of President Alpha Condé. The decision was taken at an extraordinary summit of Ecowas heads of state in Abuja, Nigeria. The organisation had imposed sanctions on Niger, Guinea, …

A 30-year-old man has been found dead by the Nsawam District Police at Dobro, near Nsawam in the Eastern Region, Ghana. “The decomposing body was found under a high tension pole in the bush,” according to reports. “The deceased have been electrocuted while attempting to steal a copper cable connecting …

The Nigerian currency collapsed on official and unofficial markets on Monday, with shares recording their biggest one-day fall in over a year. Nigeria’s naira is experiencing a collapse that is worrying investors, who have been selling local assets. Last Monday, the currency fell to 1,712 units to the dollar at …

A painter has been sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s nine-year-old daughter in Lagos, Nigeria. “The convict was a sexual pervert who entered the room of his neighbour while she had gone to work at night and sexually assaulted the girl,” according to Justice Abiola Soladoye. “The convict …