Sierra-Leone: Police announce the arrest of several people for an alleged plot
Sierra Leonean police claim to have arrested “several” people, including army officers, who were planning violent attacks a year after the deadly riots in August […]
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Sierra Leone’s president Bio re-elected, avoiding run-off, as rival disputes tally
Election officials have declared Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio as the winner of the 24 June elections, as his biggest rival, Samura Kamara, and […]
Partial results in Sierra Leone: Incumbent President leads First round
Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio is leading the presidential election in Sierra Leone with 55.86% of the vote after 60% counting, according to partial figures […]
Sierra Leone’s looming election marred by fresh violence
Deadly violence broke out around Sierra Leone’s main opposition party headquarters on Wednesday (21 June), just three days before a general election, in which incumbent […]
Oil Minister says Angola may soon have floating gas facilities
Diamantino Pedro was speaking Tuesday during a ministerial panel at the international Conference Angola Oil & Gas, an initiative of consultancy Energy Capital & Power, […]
Sierra Leone reserves one-third of MP seats for women
Sierra Leonean MPs have passed a law reserving one-third of the seats in the West African country’s National Assembly for women. After several hours of […]
Equatorial Guinea signs Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Created in July 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is the first globally enforceable multilateral agreement banning nuclear weapons in their entirety. […]
Morocco, Nigeria, ECOWAS Sign Gas Pipeline Agreement
Morocco’s National Agency for Mines and Hydrocarbons (ONHYM), Nigeria’s National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), and the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) signed Thursday […]
Sierra Leone: President agrees on bill to legalize abortion
Women in Sierra Leone could soon have legal abortions. President Julius Maada Bio gave the green light in early July to a bill to legalize […]
Liberia to expand access to abortion
Liberian parliamentarians are preparing legislation to expand access to abortion, which is currently subject to severe restrictions that many women circumvent through clandestine and unsafe […]