The Nigerien authorities on Saturday launched the National Refoundation Conference in Niamey, presided over by General Abdourahamane Tiani. These consultations, formalised by Decree 2025-086 of 8 February 2025, are structured around five key areas – Peace and security, Political and institutional refoundation, Economy and sustainable development, Geopolitics and international relations, Justice and human rights. In…
At least ten women have lost their lives in a mining accident after a Caterpillar excavator, operated by Chinese miners, overturned on a group of women searching for gold in southwest Mali. This incident comes just two weeks after a similar tragedy in the Kangaba region, where an artisanal mine collapse claimed at least 13…
Nigeria is optimistic about ensuring unhindered food access in Yobe State through its fertiliser partnership with Morocco, aimed at strengthening food security in the Northeast region. A delegation from the African Network Centre, led by the Secretary to the State Government, Baba Malam Wali, is currently in Morocco to explore a partnership with OCP/Jorf Lasfar,…
More than 3,600 Nigerians who fled to Chad a decade ago to escape jihadist violence have returned home in recent days, according to an aid agency spokesman. The returnees arrived since Monday in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, aboard trucks from the Chadian town of Baga Sola, where they had been taking refuge since…
Ghana’s main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has strongly criticized the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) for declaring former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta a fugitive. Speaking at a press conference in Accra, NPP National Organizer Henry Nana Boakye condemned the move, calling it “unreasonable and unjustified”, and labeled it a “national embarrassment”….
