West Africa News

[Nigeria Health Watch] Human mobility has always been an essential aspect of life. Beyond the essential physiological and psychological motivations to move, the constant quest for better living conditions, often drives migration. This has implications for public health policy, highlighting the need to consider trends in health worker migration in the formulation of health strategies and interventions.

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[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville/Dakar -- In a significant move to combat the ongoing challenge of variant poliovirus transmission in Central and West Africa, Ministers of Health from the Lake Chad Basin countries and Sahel sub-region have published this week a comprehensive cross-border coordination plan for 2024/2025. This critical initiative aims to bolster joint efforts to eradicate polio and prevent its spread across national borders, ensuring a safer and healthier future for millions of children.

[Premium Times] Petrol sourced from Dangote Refinery in Lagos will now cost more than gasoline imported from abroad.

[New Times] Three West African countries, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, will be launching a new biometric passport "in the coming days" as part of their withdrawal from the wider regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), according to reports.

[Premium Times] According to the NBS, food inflation was 37.52 per cent in August 2024 as against 39. 53 per cent recorded in July.

[Leadership] Concerns have been raised over the credibility of election observer groups' reports, as most of them are believed to have been compromised during the election partly due to their ownership, among other considerations.

[DW] Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An estimated four million people -- most of them children -- are caught up in the devastation.

[Daily Trust] The senator representing Borno South, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has asked the federal government to dredge communities affected by flooding in Borno State to ease out water so that residents who are trapped can be rescued.

[VOA] Maiduguri, Nigeria -- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has approved the immediate release of $8 million dollars to support victims in flood ravaged Maiduguri, in Nigeria's Borno state. Severe flooding there last week killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands of others.

[Vanguard] The Kano State Commissioner for Finance, Dr Ibrahim Jibril, has appealed to the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to help the state in tackling drug menace.

[Vanguard] The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says the headline inflation rate eased to 32.15% in August 2024, relative to the July 2024 headline inflation rate of 33.40%.

[Premium Times] "Things are happening; they are finishing (killing) us, and if it continues like this, what will happen to the young generation?" Mr Sububu said in the six-minute video.

[GhanaToday] President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Friday commissioned the long-awaited Jamestown Fishing Harbour, a promise he made to the people of Jamestown, Accra.

[Africom] Stuttgart -- The U.S. Department of Defense and the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Niger announce that the withdrawal of U.S. forces and assets from Niger is complete.

[FrontPageAfrica] Harrisburg -- U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, Mark Toner, has reaffirmed the United States' commitment to Liberia's energy sector during a recent tour of the Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant. After a two-hour visit to the facility, Ambassador Toner expressed his satisfaction with the progress made, highlighting that the plant's success could attract significant foreign direct investment to Liberia.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- President Joseph Nyumah Boakai has commissioned Hon. Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan as Liberia's new Minister of Finance. The appointment, made by His Excellency Joseph Nyumah Boakai, President of the Republic of Liberia, reflects a significant step toward fulfilling the ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development--a framework that played a crucial role in the President's electoral success.

[ISS] Boko Haram factions continually adapt to new counter-terrorism tactics, so strategies must be flexible and systematic.

[Premium Times] Abbas Haruna, a naval rating, was allegedly detained on the orders of an officer, Muhammad Adamu.

[Premium Times] According to the NBS, food inflation was 37.52 per cent in August 2024 as against 39. 53 per cent recorded in July.

[Premium Times] To address the crisis, the non-profit demanded that evidence-based nutrition interventions must be prioritised in the 2025 budgets of relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs)

[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The head of the U.S-Africa Command (Africom) - a unit of the U.S. military responsible for operations on the continent - said the U.S. strategy on the continent will remain "partnership-centric" and led by Africans themselves, whether they are "dealing with violent extremism or transnational crimes".

[Daily Trust] The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Yola Zone, has expressed strong disapproval over the dismissal of about 120 academics from several universities for participating in the 2021 national strike.

[Daily Trust] The ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has called for stringent monitoring and evaluation of the allocation of N3billion to victims affected by flood recently in Maiduguri, Borno State.

[This Day] On the back of business expansion and drive to meet the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) minimum capital requirement, a total of 12 companies listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), raised an estimated N2.6 trillion fresh capital from investing public between January and August 2024.

[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- A group of Burkinabe nationals residing in Liberia has raised concerns about ongoing harassment and mistreatment by unidentified individuals claiming to be state security personnel. The group is appealing to the Liberian government, through the Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC), for urgent protection and the safeguarding of their rights.

[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- The former ruling Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), risks losing the grounds that hosted its headquarters for about two decades with the courts issuing an eviction order, but the party's Secretary General, Jefferson Koijee, has vowed to resist what he termed as ïmaginary eviction by Joseph Boakai".

[Ghanaian Times] The Chinese government will provide $50.6 billion of financial support through the next three years to African countries for the implementation of the 10 partnership actions reached at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) recently held in China, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Tong Defa, has said.

[Ghanaian Times] The Electoral Commission (EC) says it is working assiduously to address concerns of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and other stakeholders to deliver a credible register for this year's presidential and parliamentary elections.