West Africa

The Nigerian army has said that some of the schoolgirls missing after a militant attack on a girls’ boarding school in the Yobe state of Nigeria have been rescued.

Boko Haram has attacked a girls' school in the Yobe state of Nigeria with fears that several school girls might have been abducted as they are uncounted for.

The President of Liberia George Weah has announced that his country is "broke" and depleted by bad governance.

Heads of State from the Economic Community of West Africa States ECOWAS are meeting in Accra on Wednesday in a bid to fast track processes towards meeting the 2020 target for the introduction of a single currency ECO.

Farming employs the majority of people in most African countries and the agricultural sector provides the backbone to the economy in many of these countries.

A donor pre-engagement on Gambia’s new National Development Plan (NDP), is scheduled to take place in Dakar, Senegal from 20 to 22 February 2018. Following the election of President Adama Barrow in December 2016, the country has a new window of opportunity to lay the foundations for a modern democratic state and key reforms for sustainable growth.

The Nigerian government has said that more than 200 people have been convicted on various charges related to their involvement with militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

Ghana's President Akufo-Addo is to host a dialogue between Togo's government and all opposition parties on Monday as ECOWAS leaders look for solutions to the current political crisis in that country.

475 Boko Haram suspects who have been facing trial have been ordered to be released by a court in Nigeria to enable these suspects access rehabilitation services.

The President of the Gambia Adama Barrow has announced a moratorium on death penalty as the country begins rebuilding its human rights records after the exit of longtime leader Yahya Jammeh.