The Gambia has joined the opposition in Togo to call on Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe to resign as agitations continue in the West African nation for an end to the Gnassingbe dynasty which has lasted for 50 years.
Just like with the coup in Burkina Faso in Sept 2015, which was broken on twitter by the African Union’s Department for Political Affairs (@AUC_DPA), social media, with a special focus on twitter, is also where much of the developments surrounding Togo have taken place.
Nigeria appears to be skeptical about Morocco's bid to join the West African Sub-regional body ECOWAS and is reluctant in seeing it gain a membership, DW reports.
Loyalists of former Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh are reported to be posing security threat to the new government of the West African country.
According to...
West African regional group Ecowas has in principle approved Morocco's membership application despite the country being in North Africa.
But Ecowas leaders meeting in Liberia...
Six people have been seriously wounded in the Gambia after supporters of ex-President Yahya Jammeh clashed with regional forces deployed in the wake of...
The West African nation Guinea-Bissau could face possible sanctions from the regional bloc ECOWAS over its current political crisis.
The country’s parliament is unable to...
Soldiers from the ECOWAS mission in the Gambia and the Gambian military are reported to have exchanged gunshots among themselves in Kanilai.
According to the...
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
