The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a disbursement of $143 million (approximately 82.52 billion CFA francs) to Benin as part of its ongoing support under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), Extended Credit Facility (ECF), and Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF). The IMF praised Benin’s economic transformation under President Patrice Talon, noting impressive growth of…
Guinea-Bissau’s opposition leader and former president of the dissolved National Assembly, Domingos Simões Pereira, has raised alarm over what he describes as an increasing pattern of rights violations and institutional interference in Guinea-Bissau. His concerns follow a recent police raid on the residence of Dr. Boubacar Touré, president of the League for Human Rights. Pereira,…
Authorities in Ghana’s capital, Accra are sounding the alarm over a looming health crisis as all major landfill sites within the capital have reached their limit, raising serious concerns about a potential outbreak of diseases like cholera and typhoid. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) raised the alarm during a briefing with Parliament’s Sanitation and Water…
Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Monday presented a bold reform agenda before the National Assembly, setting the tone for a new era in institutional, judicial, and social governance. During the question session, Sonko revealed plans to introduce four key bills, touching on transparency, anti-corruption, and access to public information. The session, however, was marked…
A U.S. federal judge has ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) must release documents related to past investigations involving Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and a suspected drug trafficking network from the early 1990s. Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…
