West Africa

Cape Town — COVID-19’s impact on big business across the continent is well documented, however, the pandemic’s effect on small to medium business enterprises cannot be overlooked. Speaking during an online media briefing, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, said that 70% of Africa’s …

Editor’s note: Since this article was reported earlier this year, COVID-19 has now reached Togo, a small country in West Africa between Benin and Ghana, where Sr. Marie Stella Kouak cares for AIDS-HIV patients and orphans through the organization she founded 21 years ago, Vivre dans l’Esperance (To Live in …

The global community has been battling the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) since November 2019. The pandemic is known to have infected over six million individuals, and claimed more than 350,000 lives across the world as of 3rd June ,2020. As it rages through the globe, the virus has drastically changed …

A negative laboratory test result of COVID-19 patients is no longer required for such patients to be discharged, a Nigerian official has said. The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, made this known at the daily Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday. …

At least three humanitarian workers and a Nigerian soldier were on Tuesday abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in the northern part of Borno State, officials confirmed. Humanitarian workers travelling under a military escort, from Maiduguri to Monguno in the northern part of Borno, ran into an ambush that led …

Senator Abraham Darius Dillon is once again on a parade. Still trying to shake his tail off proven allegations that he accepted bribe to pass the state of emergency and economic stimulus package, the Montserrado County Senator appears to be biting more than he can chew. And this time, it …

Monrovia — The President of the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC), Rev. Kortu K. Brown, has called on members of Legislature to desist from burning their energies on investigating a colleague for making alleged disparaging comments against Legislature. Rev. Brown said citizens, particularly lawmakers, should refrain from acts that have …

Monrovia — The Lutheran Church in Liberia says it will begin regular traditional worship service on June 7 at all its churches in the country. The decision comes more than two weeks after after President George Weah relaxed restriction against public gathering and called on worship centers to allow at …

Monrovia — Senator Sando Johnson of Bomi County says has disclosed that he is talking with the Collaborating Political Party (CPP) to become the party’s possible candidate in the upcoming Special Senatorial Election. “As we speak, I am collaborating, I am working with the CPP because I believe in the …

Kakata — The Liberian Government quest for a speedy trial in the German national murder case at the 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Margibi County has been dealt a blow due to the court deferment of the trial for the next Term of Court. The suspension of the trial on …