Ivory Coast to increase official farmgate cocoa price
Ivory Coast, the world’s largest exporter of cocoa is exected to increase the official cocoa farmgate price to 1,500 CFA francs ($2.47) per kg from Tuesday from the current 1,000 CFA. It comes as President Allassane Ouattara on Saturday validated…
Basketball: Grass to grace, despair to hope, the story of Jeremiah Armstead
Jeremiah Armstead moved around so much he wasn’t even eligible to play high school basketball until his senior year. He never lost faith through all the nights his family slept in their car when they couldn’t get a hotel room…
Chad election: Campaigns start as opposition candidates lament violations
In the capital Ndjamena, the billboards and posters promoting the candidacies of junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby and Prime Minister Succes Masra are already up despite the official start of campaigns for the presidential election still being weeks away. Campaigning…
Morocco opens Ivory Coast’s largest mosque
Morocco has opened what is now Ivory Coast’s largest mosque, after seven years of work in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan. Muslims make up around 40 percent of the population in Ivory coast, and are concentrated in the country’s north. Mabri…
Sierra Leone declares emergency over drug abuse
Sierra Leone has declared a national emergency after increased cases of substance abuse. President Julius Maada Bio’s decree Thursday follows an explosive rise in the use of a synthetic drug known as Kush. The drug which is highly addictive is…
Senegal names new government in first test for Faye’s promised radical reforms
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko unveiled his government made up of 25 ministers and 5 junior inisters on Friday. President Bassirou Diomaye approved the cabinet list. The performance of the council of ministers will be closely watched at home and abroad….
Ghana ranked 5th best-governed country in Africa
Ghana has been ranked as the 5th best-governed country on the African continent and the best-governed country in the whole of West Africa by World Economics, a United Kingdom (UK) based research organisation. The good governance ranking according to World…
Zimbabwe launches new gold-backed currency – ZiG
Zimbabwe has introduced a new gold-backed currency called ZiG – the name stands for “Zimbabwe Gold”. It is the latest attempt to stabilise an economy that has lurched from crisis to crisis for the past 25 years. Unveiling the new…
Liberia uncovers 40,000 illegal civil servants
The Liberian government says it has discovered over 40,000 illegal civil servants in its system. The director general of the Civil Service Agency (CSA), Josiah Joekai told the BBC details of the civil servants were entered incorrectly or not at…
Senegal inaugurates youngest president, who promises change
Former tax inspector Bassirou Diomaye Faye is Senegal’s youngest president ever. He has vowed to fight corruption and renegotiate contracts with foreign companies.Former tax inspector Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in as Senegal’s president on Tuesday. Bassirou Diomaye Faye, right,…