The United States will withdraw its troops from Niger, a source familiar with the matter said late on Friday, adding that an agreement was reached between U.S Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Niger's leadership. As of last year, there ... Read More

The World Bank Group (WBG) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group have committed to providing at least 300 million people in Africa with electricity access by 2030.  While the World Bank would work to connect 250 million people to electricity ... Read More

The US Embassy and Emerging Public Leaders, an organization that strengthens public institutions to create change, have collaborated to train public officials in Ghana’s public safety sector on conflict management.  The one-year training program, dubbed “the Professionals Engaged Against Conflict & ... Read More

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has hosted Mr Robert Beugré Mambé, the Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, at the Jubilee House, ahead of the inauguration of the Headquarters of the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative. The leaders held fruitful discussions regarding the ongoing ... Read More

Faure Gnassingbé, President of Togo The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray, has approved the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission to Togo ahead of the legislative and regional elections scheduled for April 29, 2024.  ECOWAS in a statement dated April ... Read More

A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was “impossible” without human-induced climate change, scientists say. Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat. Researchers say human activities like burning ... Read More

Burkina Faso’s military junta has expelled three French diplomats for “subversive activities,” according to a government statement Thursday. The diplomats, two of whom are political advisers, were given 48 hours to leave and no additional details were shared about the alleged ... Read More

In response to growing campaign violence, Chad's transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Deby, has ordered his military to arrest angry civilians and make sure peace reigns in the run-up to the May 6 presidential election and afterwards. Opposition and civil ... Read More

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecasted a single-digit inflation rate of 8% for Ghana by the end of 2025, aligning with the government's target for the same period. Ghana's government aims to reduce the end-year inflation target from 23 percent ... Read More

Volker Turk The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday appealed for more attention to be given to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as he visited a camp for displaced people in Goma. Thousands of ... Read More