While you were sleeping, global agencies reported the following events overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. Nineteen thousand residents of Southern California received evacuation orders on Wednesday following the eruption of the uncontrolled Hughes Fire near Castaic,
Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned the headwear.
Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of harmful chemicals, explosives and drugs.
A sweeping Interpol-led operation targeting illegal mining in West Africa has led to the arrest of 200 people and the seizure of substances worth $100,000.
Burkina Faso has now joined countries such as Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia in taking steps to ban the usage of wigs.
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Sulemana Braimah, Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has lauded President John Mahama as the most effective representative of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the ongoing efforts to resolve the military impasse among member states.
John Mahama has been sworn in as Ghana’s new president. He inherits a host of security challenges by dint of the country’s position in the west African region, which has become increasingly volatile.
Examples include Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Benin and Sierra Leone. Since 2015, there have been at least 17 coups and attempted coups in the region. Terrorism and ...
High-burden cholera outbreaks, spreading beyond the traditional cholera-endemic countries, have been reported since 2021 in the WHO African region. Member states in the region have committed to the global goal of cholera elimination by 2030.
Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger are taking new routes to quell domestic contradictions. Central Africa remains one of the most volatile regions on the continent. The Central African Republic ...
It happened while you were sleeping. Here is what global agencies reported overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. 19,000 residents of Southern California were issued an evacuation order on Wednesday after the uncontrolled Hughes Fire eruption near Castaic,