November 20
Liberia: Guinea Becomes Latest MRU Country to Miss Out On Afcon 2025
Liberian Investigator
Guinea has become the latest Mano River Union (MRU) country to miss out on the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after a narrow 1-0 defeat away to Tanzania. Read more »
Liberia: From U.S.$150k to U.S.$50k - Drastic Cut in National Football Budget
Liberian Investigator
The Draft National Budget for Fiscal Year 2025 proposes a sharp reduction in funding for football, allocating only US$50,000--more than a 60 percent cut from the US$150,000… Read more »
November 19
Ghana: Why Ghanaian Farmers Have Been Unable to Capitalise On Record Cocoa Prices [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
International cocoa prices have experienced a historic price surge, rising by over 300% in the space of 12 months from £2,166 per tonne of cocoa in April 2023 to £9,980… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigeria Begins Mpox Vaccination
Premium Times
According to the NPHDA Chief Executive Director, Muyi Aina, the vaccination is mostly targeted at health workers in facilities where cases have been diagnosed and close contacts of… Read more »
Liberia: ICC Prosecutor Appeals for Global Support to Bring Libyan War Criminals to Justice
UN News
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to help execute arrest warrants against suspects allegedly linked to a brutal… Read more »
Senegal: Senegal's Elections Were a Triumph for Democracy - What Went Right [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye unexpectedly called a snap legislative election which was held on 17 November. Faye was sworn in as president in April after a tumultuous… Read more »
Africa: 'A Robbery On So Large a Scale' - 140 Years After the Berlin West Africa Conference [analysis]
African Arguments
Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from… Read more »
Africa: 80% of People Without Electricity Access Live in Nigeria, Other African Nations - Report
This Day
Roughly 80 per cent of people who have no access to electricity globally live in Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa despite a decline of the number by more than 10… Read more »
Zimbabwe/Cameroon: Warriors Anticipate Tough Clash Against Cameroon
New Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's senior men's football team face an uphill task as they play against continental soccer giants Cameroon on Tuesday afternoon. Read more »
Nigeria: Tinubu Seeks National Assembly's Approval to Borrow $2.209 Billion
Premium Times
Mr Tinubu said the loan request would help to finance the deficit in the 2024 budget. Read more »
West Africa: The Anti-Imperialist Upsurge in the Sahel Is Irreversible, Say Leaders At Historic Conference in Niamey
People's Dispatch
Hundreds gather in Niamey, Niger for opening day of a historic conference in solidarity with the people of the Sahel Read more »
Nigeria: AfDB Official - Food Scarcity Elevated Malnutrition Among Women, Children in Nigeria
This Day
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Nigeria: Tinubu Officially Has Three Spokespersons - Presidency [press release]
Premium Times
"All the three Special Advisers will collectively serve as spokespersons for the government." Read more »
Liberia: World Bank Lauds Liberia's Progress in Gender-Responsive Budgeting
Liberian Observer
The World Bank Country Manager for Liberia, Georgia Wallen, has praised Liberia's efforts in integrating gender considerations into national budgetary processes, describing it as a… Read more »
Liberia: 'I Don't Know How This Will End...'
Liberian Observer
-- Speaker Koffa expresses uncertainty as battle over his removal intensifies, however insists that he won't resign Read more »
Nigeria: Nigerian Senators Met in London to Perfect Defection Plan - Lawmaker
Premium Times
The senator said that part of the London agreement was that one senator would defect to the ruling party. Read more »
Nigeria: Cholera - Sokoto Govt Provides Updates On Fatalities, Cases
Premium Times
The Sokoto government said 23 of the deaths occurred at home, while three patients died in health centres. Read more »
Nigeria: What I Know About 1995 Attempted Coup Against Abacha - Bello-Fadile
Premium Times
Mr Bello-Fadile was a principal actor in what was widely regarded as the 1995 "phantom coup" against Mr Abacha. Read more »
Nigeria: Prevail On Tinubu to Release Nnamdi Kanu, Ex-Senator Begs Akpabio
Premium Times
Mr Kanu, who is facing terrorism charges, has been in detention since he was brought back to Nigeria from Kenya in June 2021. Read more »
Nigeria: Tinubu Requests Senate to Approve Fresh $2.2bn External Loan
Premium Times
President Tinubu said the loan would be part of the funds that will be used to finance the N28.7 trillion 2024 Appropriation. Read more »
Nigeria: Jigawa Govt Lifts Suspension On Commissioner After Court Clears Him of Illicit Conduct [press release]
Premium Times
The statement pointed out that the lifting of the suspension followed the commissioner's discharge and acquittal by an Upper Sha'riah Court in Kofar Kudu, Kano State. Read more »
Nigeria: World Toilet Day - Jigawa Trains Faecal Sludge Emptiers On Best Hygiene Practices
Premium Times
JISEPA's Managing Director, Adamu Sabo, told reporters on Monday the training was aimed at improving the local business of the faecal sludge emptiers due to its paramount… Read more »
Nigeria: UN Permanent Seat - Tinubu Lobbies G20 Leaders
Daily Trust
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said there is an urgent need for the United Nations Security Council to reform its structure to ensure its continued relevance in global… Read more »
Nigeria: Only 2% of Kano Population Still Practising Open Defecation - Unicef
Daily Trust
The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) says only two per cent of people in Kano State are still practising open defecation as the state achieved a milestone in ending the… Read more »
Liberia: Majority Bloc Reconstitutes Ways, Means & Finance Committee, Suspends Three Lawmakers
FrontPageAfrica
The Majority Bloc in the House of Representatives, during a session in the joint chambers, has restructured the Ways, Means, and Finance Committee under the leadership of Deputy… Read more »
