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February 07, (THEWILL) - A private radio station, Capital FM, has been attacked and ransacked by gunmen in Guinea-Bissau. "Masked assailants arrived at the station in the capital Bissau in 4×4s and started shooting and trashing radio equipment on Monday. “They...

February 06, (THEWILL) - Members of the Guinean National Transitional Council (CNT) on Saturday held an inaugural session in parliament buildings in the capital, Conakry. Conde, who was Guinea’s first democratically elected president and had been in power since 2010,...

January 28, (THEWILL) - The West African bloc ECOWAS on Friday suspended Burkina Faso following a coup, but will not impose other sanctions for the time being, a participant at a virtual summit said. ECOWAS is also calling for the...

January 28, (THEWILL) - A 46-year-old inmate, Donald Grant has been executed for the brutal killing of a hotel manager and an employee at La Quinta Inn during a robbery operation in 2001. He received a lethal injection on...

January 27, (THEWILL) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the resumption of arrivals from Nigeria and some other African countries, effective January 29, 2022. THEWILL recalls that the UAE had in December suspended inbound passenger flights from Nigeria...

January 24, (THEWILL) - Soldiers in Burkina Faso on Monday announced on state television that they have seized power in the West African country, following a mutiny over the civilian president’s failure to contain an Islamist insurgency. "MPSR, which includes all...

January 24, (THEWILL) - Istanbul Airport has suspended all flights on Monday because of a heavy snowstorm blanketing Turkey’s biggest city. “Due to adverse conditions, all flights have been temporarily stopped for air safety",  the airport said in a statement. Officials said...

January 24, (THEWILL) - Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, two security sources and a West African diplomat said on Monday. THEWILL had reported heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday...

January 23, (THEWILL) - Burkina Faso’s government denied that the military had seized control of the country on Sunday after exchanges of gunfire took place at multiple army barracks, including two in the capital. “Information on social media would have people...

January 19, (THEWILL) - United States President, Joe Biden, has chosen Los Angeles to host the 2022 Summit of the Americas, a key gathering that U.S officials hope would help mend diplomatic fences in the Western Hemisphere. The White House...