Mali: Government declares 10-day nationwide state of emergency
Mali’s government declared a 10-day nationwide state of emergency Monday evening after what security sources say follows a series of threats from unnamed jihadist groups. […]
West Africa
Guinea: Gold mine collapse kills dozen
The collapse of an artisan gold mine in northeast Guinea killed at least 13 people and the death toll might rise, local officials said on […]
Mali: Rice harvest increases 13%
Mali, West Africa’s second largest rice producer after Nigeria, has produced 2,451,321 tonnes of rice in 2015, up 13 percent from last season, government statistics […]
MTN secures Ivory-Cost licence after Ghana
Mobile network operator MTN has deposited an instalment payment to Côte d’Ivoire’s government on Wednesday in order to renew its licence, which expires in April […]
Angola & China state-run oil companies agree 10-year oil deal
China’s state-owned oil company, Sinochem Group said on Wednesday it had signed a deal with Angolan state-owned producer Sonangol to buy crude oil for more […]
Gabon: Record seizure of Ivory
Police in Gabon arrested two ivory traffickers in the capital Libreville with 206 kilograms of ivory taken from 21 slaughtered elephants, a wildlife protection group […]
Nigeria: Kidnapped Polish seamen freed
Five Polish sailors who were kidnapped by pirates from a cargo ship off Nigeria’s coast in late November have been freed and are returning home […]
French Court orders arrest of Ivorian parliament speaker
A French judge has issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Ivory Coast’s parliament speaker Guillaume Soro after he failed to appear in court. The […]
Burkina Faso: Gilbert Diendere charged over the murder of Sankara
Gilbert Diendere, the shadowy general behind the September failed coup in Burkina Faso, has now been formally charged over the murder of former President Thomas […]
Air France-KLM to make Abidjan a regional hub by 2025
Air France-KLM group on Tuesday said it expects to turn Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan into its West African regional hub within a decade. “In […]