One person was reportedly shot following a riot on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital over the scarcity of the new Naira notes. The Naira crisis sparked violent protests in parts of the country on Tuesday as most bank branches hurriedly shut down operations. A First Bank branch was torched in Ogun State during the protest in which a …

Hundreds of people protested in Senegal’s capital on Friday to call for legal action after a report by a public spending watchdog revealed alleged misuse of Covid relief funds, an AFP journalist saw. Shouting slogans, the crowd heeded a call by about a dozen civil society organisations to demonstrate in a Dakar square. Police were deployed around the square for …