Tag: West Africa

West African leaders will meet on Thursday to decide how to respond to the coup in Guinea and how to ...

Marburg case fatality rates have varied from 24% to 88% in past outbreaks depending on virus strain

Guinea records West Africa’s first Marburg virus death, WHO says

12 August 2021, 6:05 PM

Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the ...

The revolt has prompted sanctions warnings from foreign powers, which fear it will derail a promised transition back to democracy following another coup last August led by Goita, an army colonel.

West African bloc ECOWAS suspends Mali’s membership after coup -minister

30 May 2021, 11:12 PM

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday suspended Mali’s membership of the regional bloc in response to ...

[File image] 118 bags of cocaine were discovered on Thursday during a search of a container shipped from the port of Guayaquil in Ecuador

Gambia seizes 3 tonnes of cocaine in one of West Africa’s largest busts

8 January 2021, 8:13 PM

Gambian authorities seized nearly three tonnes of cocaine from a shipment of industrial salt originating in Ecuador, a spokesman said ...

Colonel Ismael Wague, the junta's spokesman of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) which overthrew Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, walks out after the meeting with Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mediators in Bamako, Mali.

Some agreement, but issues remain as West African mediators meet Mali coup leaders

by Celestine Hendricks

24 August 2020, 7:56 AM

Mediators from West Africa’s regional bloc reached agreement on certain points in talks with Mali’s military junta that are aimed ...

West African mediators jet to Mali seeking reversal of coup

22 August 2020, 3:07 PM

Mediators from West Africa's regional bloc are due in Mali on Saturday for talks aimed at reversing a coup that ...

Macron had called the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger and Mauritania, known as the G5, to discuss the battle against insurgents in the Sahel.

France, West Africa to unite forces in fight against militants

14 January 2020, 12:43 PM

France and five West African states agreed on Monday to combine their military forces under one command structure to fight a ...

West Africa renames CFA franc but keeps it pegged to euro

22 December 2019, 6:18 AM

West Africa’s monetary union has agreed with France to rename its CFA franc the Eco and cut some of the ...

Less than a week ago, 38 Malian soldiers were killed in a double attack on two army camps in central Mali - among the heaviest losses for Mali’s army in recent years.

About 70 soldiers killed in attack on Niger military camp

11 December 2019, 9:44 PM

About 70 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military camp in Niger near the border with Mali on ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday hold a bilateral meeting with the President of Ghana.

President Ramaphosa arrives in West Africa

4 December 2019, 7:39 PM

21 November 2019, 4:37 PM

President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in West Africa.

France takes aim at Saudi over failed West Africa commitments

by SABC Digital News

France’s armed forces minister criticized close ally Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for failing to honor commitments it made almost two ...

Troops from the Malian Armed Forces conduct an operation near Tin Hama, Mali.

Mali says 25 soldiers killed in attacks by suspected jihadists

2 October 2019, 10:45 AM

The toll is among the highest suffered by Malian forces this year as they struggle to contain militant groups with ...

Over 40 million people are estimated to be trapped in forced labour, forced marriages or other forms of sexual exploitation, according to the United Nations

West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began

by Celestine Hendricks

8 August 2019, 7:51 AM

As the world marks 400 years since the first recorded African slaves arrived in North America, slavery remains a modern-day ...

Guterres said the problem was spreading beyond the region and the G-5 Sahel force.

Sahel nations need more support to fight extremism: UN chief

10 July 2019, 6:50 PM

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the international community Wednesday to support West Africa's fight against violent extremism, saying the region ...

A map highlighting West African countries

West Africa wealth inequalities reaching extreme levels

9 July 2019, 5:44 AM

A report by Oxfam and DFI said the vast majority of West Africans were "denied the most essential elements of ...

Medical scientists, prompted by a devastating West African Ebola epidemic between 2013 and 2016, have worked fast to develop cutting edge vaccines.

Ebola’s spread highlights importance of societal issues in scientific advancements

17 June 2019, 4:06 PM

The persistence of Congo’s Ebola outbreak and its deadly spread to Uganda in recent days show how societal issues are ...

Health workers carry the body of an Ebola victim for burial at a cemetery in Freetown.

Ebola death toll tops 700 in DR Congo

6 April 2019, 1:56 PM

The DRC declared its tenth outbreak of Ebola in 40 years last August in northeastern North Kivu province before it ...

Idrissa Seck, a presidential candidate of the coalition "Idy 2019", greets his supporters

The five candidates running in Senegal’s presidential election

19 February 2019, 7:40 AM

Senegal, the most stable democracy in West Africa, is preparing for an election on Sunday with President Macky Sall facing ...

The G5 Sahel is a French-backed scheme conceived in 2015 to roll back jihadism.

W.Africa security forum opens amid concerns over G5 Sahel force

by Yolanda Mhlathi

5 November 2018, 2:48 PM