The ban on outdoor protests in Ivory Coast will end today ahead of the West African country’s general elections holding on October 31. President Alassane Ouattara…
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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, said Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) may meet again to discuss…
President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo has named Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe as prime minister, becoming the first woman to hold the position in the West African nation. Tomegah-Dogbe…
Togolese Prime Minister, Komi Selom Klassou, and his government have resigned in a political reshuffle delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Klassou has served as prime minister…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will not lift economic sanctions it slammed on Mali following a coup five weeks ago, the bloc said…
Mali’s has a new president five weeks after the overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Former Defence Minister Bah Ndaou, aged 70, was hand picked by the…
Guinea Bissau has named a road road in honour of Muhammadu Buhari, the President of West African neighbours, Nigeria. Buhari will on Thursday depart Abuja for…
France will support the transitional government in Mali but only on conditions set by the Economic of West African States (ECOWAS), the European country’s Foreign Ministry…
Maurice Kamto, the leader of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM), has been confined at his home by authorities following anti-government protests in which one person died…
Mali’s new vice president, Colonel Assimi Goita, has called on the Economic of West African States (ECOWAS) to lift economic sanctions imposed in the wake of…