The Accra Circuit Court has remanded into police custody Theophilus Kpakpo Thompson for his alleged role in an assault on Latif Iddrisu, a journalist with Accra-based JoyNews.

Analysis - Liberia Is a Country of Firsts and contrasts. Founded in 1847, Liberia is Africa's first republic. The country elected Africa's first female president and boasts two Nobel laureates among ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Togolese authorities to investigate and hold accountable the gendarmes who detained journalist Flore Monteau and forced her to delete footage she took of ...

Legislative and local elections in Burundi on June 5, 2025, took place in a context of severely restricted free speech and political space, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Yusuf Murangwa, is expected to present the budget statement to the parliament today, June 12, in which the government plans to spend more than Rwf7 ...

The Monrovia City Court is set to rule in the coming weeks on a motion to dismiss the arson case involving former House Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa and four sitting lawmakers.

Liberia has officially ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) ...

To transform Liberia's rice value chain, the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has officially launched the Sustainable ...

Tensions are rising between Uganda's business community and airport authorities as the Uganda National Traders Alliance met with airport transporters this week to address growing frustration over ...

A Liberian delegation led by Assistant Minister for Tourism, Atty. Dogba K. Norris, Jr., has departed Monrovia to participate in two high-level African tourism events in Abuja, Nigeria, aimed at ...