Ghana's economy posted a robust 7.4 percent growth rate in 2018, but up to one third of the country's lenders have disappeared from the financial landscape since the start of 2019, according the African weekly Jeune Afrique . The influential publication reports on its website that the shutdowns are the outcome of a directive from the Ban ...

International Criminal Court judges will rule next Tuesday on whether to release former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo as his trial for crimes against humanity drags on, the court said. Gbagbo, 73, has spent seven years in detention in The Hague accused of fomenting bloodshed after refusing to accept defeat in elections in the West African ...

Mozambican authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalistAmade Abubacar from arbitrary detention by military forces and end the escalating crackdown on journalists, Amnesty International said today. On 5 January, police in the Macomia district of Cabo Delgado arrested Amade Abubacar while he was interviewing a group of ...