15-Apr-2020 to 23:13

APA-Banjul (The Gambia) — Water shortage is an unresolved problem in most rural communities in The Gambia but nowhere is this felt worse than in the Central River Region, where the crusade to tackle the coronavirus has hit a snag thanks to a protracted scarcity.

14-Apr-2020 to 22:56

APA - Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire) — The case of alleged extortion and violence blamed on four detained soldiers of the Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FACI), including a colonel has been referred to the Abidjan Military Detention Center (MAMA) APA learned Tuesday from a security source.

13-Apr-2020 to 21:10

APA – Lagos (Nigeria) — President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the ongoing lockdown over the COVID-19 by another two weeks in order to check the spread of the virus.

13-Apr-2020 to 09:50

APA-Banjul (The Gambia) — In this article written exclusively for the African Press Agency, Ingram Peters Jnr, a former Gambian journalist now living in the UK captures the state of helplessness attending to the coronavirus pandemic holding the world in a vice-like grip.

10-Apr-2020 to 23:57

APA-Freetown (Sierra Leone) — The umbrella Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has accused the government of presiding over state sanctioned brutality against journalists and called for an end to it.

10-Apr-2020 to 20:38

APA-Banjul (The Gambia) — The Gambia government has put forward emergency regulation laws which prohibit the smuggling of essential goods mainly food items out of the country.

03-Apr-2020 to 15:50

APA-Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire) — President Alassane Ouattara on Friday appointed by decree Mrs. Chantal Camara and Patrice Yao Kouakou as heads of the Court of Cassation and the Council of State respectively, the Secretary General of the Presidency Patrick Achi confirmed