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2020 in West Africa

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The following lists events that happened during 2020 in West Africa.

January

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February

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March

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  • March 12
  • March 14
    • Canadian Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto, who were kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018, are released in Mali.[48]
  • March 15
    • Senegal imposes travel restrictions, bans cruise ships, and closes schools for three weeks in response to the coronavirus. They also ban public gatherings for a month including Muslim and Christian pilgrimages.[49]
    • Mauritania imposes travel restrictions and closes schools for three weeks in response to the coronavirus.[49]
    • In a historic first, all Peace Corps volunteers worldwide are withdrawn from their host countries.[50]
  • March 17 – The Niger Armed Forces say they have killed 50 members of Boko Haram in Toumour.[51]
  • March 22 – 2020 Guinean legislative election and a constitutional referendum: Voters approve changes to extend the presidential term for twelve years.[52]
  • March 24 – Between 50 and 75 Nigerian soldiers are ambushed and killed by Boko Haram in Goneri village, Yobe State, Nigeria.[53]
  • March 26
  • March 29 – The 2020 Malian parliamentary election, originally scheduled for November 25 and December 16, 2018, then moved to April 2019 and then to June 2019, is held on Sunday amid kidnappings and bombings; nine people are reported dead.[55]
  • March 30 – Sierra Leone removes restrictions on pregnant girls who wish to go to school. Around 30% of girls in Sierra Leone become pregnant and 40% are married by the age of 18.[56]

April

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  • April 3 – Four soldiers and 63 jihadists are killed in fighting in the Tillabéri Region of Niger.[57]
  • April 6 – Protesters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, destroy a coronavirus center, saying it was too close to a residential area.[58]
  • April 11 – Moussa Faki, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, invites the Chinese ambassador to the AU to discuss allegations of discrimination and mistreatment of hundreds of Africans in Guangzhou, southern China.[59]
  • April 13
    • 14,000 cases of COVID-19 and 788 deaths have been reported across Africa. Cases by country: Benin – 35, Burkina Faso – 497, Cape Verde – 8, The Gambia – 9, Ghana – 566, Guinea – 250, Guinea-Bissau – 38, Ivory Coast – 574, Liberia – 50, Mali – 105, Mauritania – 7, Niger – 529, Nigeria- 323, Senegal – 280, Sierra Leone – 10, Togo – 76[60]
  • April 15 – Finance ministers from the Group of 20 agree to put a hold on debt service by poor countries so they can concentrate their efforts on health service and ending the pandemic. 76 countries will be able to participate in the plan, including 40 from Sub-Saharan Africa. $8 billion in private loans and $12 billion in loans from other countries will be frozen for the remainder of 2020 and possibly beyond. Another $12 billion in multilateral loans from organizations such as the World Bank is also under consideration.[61]
  • April 17 – Considerable fake news about COVID-19 is circulating in Africa.[62]
  • April 20 – COVID-19 pandemic: Ghana lifts lockdown rules in Accra and Kuasi, citing improved COVID-19 testing and the "severe" impact of the restrictions on the poor and vulnerable. Ghana reports 1,042 cases and nine deaths from COVID-19 and 68,000 people have been tested.[63]
  • April 22 – The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the number of malaria deaths in Africa may double this year as efforts to curb the disease wind down.[64]
  • April 24 – Concord Day, Niger
  • April 25 – COVID-19 pandemic: Burkina Faso has 629 cases and 41 deaths, including Rose Marie Compaore, the second Vice President of the parliament. About 50 doctors were confirmed positive this week.[65]
  • April 28 – Former Ivory Coast Prime Minister and leader of the Patriotic Movement of Côte d'Ivoire Guillaume Soro is fined $7.6 million (£6.1 million) for embezzlement and money laundering. Soro, who lives in exile in France, says the move is designed to remove him from the 2020 Ivorian presidential election.[66]
  • April 29
    • A new polio outbreak is reported in Niger, unrelated to last year's outbreak.[67]
    • COVID-19 pandemic: Infections surge 24% in ten days to over 2,000 cases as Ghana lifts lockdown.[68]

May

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  • May 2 – A French soldier is killed during Operation Barkhane by terrorists in Mali. Two other soldiers were injured in the April 23 attack in the Liptako region of southeast central Mali.[69]
  • May 6
    • Nine-year-old Joselia Kollie of Liberia writes a popular song[70] about the COVID-19 pandemic.[71]
    • A sandstorm covers Niamey, Niger.[72]
  • May 8 – Guinean-born Roman Catholic Cardenal Robert Sarah finds himself in the middle of a controversy over COVID-19.[73]
  • May 9 – Jihadist activity in Burkina Faso forces the closing of gold mines.[74]
  • May 13
    • The Defense Ministry in Niger says that 75 Boko Haram extremists have been killed in operations this week.[75]
    • COVID-19 pandemic: A COVID-19 survivor is stoned in Ghana.[76]
  • May 17 – COVID-19 pandemic: Fears grow of spread of COVID-19 as mosques reopen in the region.[77]
  • May 28 – The International Criminal Court gives permission the former president of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, to leave Belgium if certain conditions are met.[78]

June

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  • June 1
  • June 2 – Encouraged by protests against the murder of George Floyd in the United States and around the world, Nigerians have gone public with protests against violence. #JusticeForUwa, #JusticeForTina, and #JusticeForJennifer are some of the rallying cries on social media.[80]
  • June 3 – The government of The Gambia has demanded a "transparent, credible and objective investigation" into the shooting death of Momodou Lamin Sisay, 39—the son of Lare Sisay, a retired diplomat—by police in Snellville, Georgia, the United States.[81]
  • June 4 – The board of the African Development Bank agrees to an investigation into president Akinwumi Adesina. Adesina is up for reelection in August.[82]
  • June 5
  • June 9 - Gunmen suspected of belonging to Boko Haram kill 81 villagers in Gubio, Borno State, Nigeria.[86] Another 20 people are killed in an attack in Katsina State.[86]
  • June 10
    • Armed rebels kill ten soldiers in Sikolo, Kong Department, Ivory Coast.[87]
    • Amnesty International accuses security forces of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso of unlawfully killing or causing the disappearance of around 200 people this year and says they could be war crimes.[88]
  • June 12
    • World Day Against Child Labor: The International Labour Organization and the UNICEF warn that millions of children are likely to be pushed into forced labor because of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.[89]
  • June 13 – Authorities in Cape Verde arrest Alex Saab, a businessman accused by the U.S. of corrupt dealings with President Nicolás Maduro's government in Venezuela, while en route to Iran .[90]
  • June 27 – Incumbent Ghana President Akufo-Addo, 76, is chosen by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to run for reelection against former president John Dramani Mahama, 61, on December 7.[91]

July

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  • July 8
  • July 12
    • French Defence Minister Florence Parly announces that the European Union will deploy 100 French and Estonian troops to Mali starting July 15. Sixty Czech soldiers will be sent in October, followed by 150 Swedish troops in January 2021. Italy will also send troops.[94]
    • Protests continue in Mali after eleven people were killed on July 10 and 11.[95]
  • July 13 – Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan, 77, of the Ivory Coast resigns for personal reasons.[96]
  • July 18
    • Between three and 16 security forces are killed in a clash with criminals near Jibia in Katsina state, Nigeria.[97]
    • Four people are killed as hundreds protest the relocation of a power generator in Sierra Leone.[97]
  • July 23 – Economic Community of West African States negotiations to solve Mali's political crisis as the political opposition renews protests to force President Ibrahim Boubcar Keita to leave office three years before his term ends.[98]
  • July 27 – COVID-19 pandemic: Dr. Francesco Branca of the World Health Organization says that COVID-19-linked hunger is leading to 10,000 child deaths per month.[99]
  • July 30 – 31: Eid al-Adha Islamic Festival of the Sacrifice

August

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September

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October

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November—December

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Culture

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Fashion

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  • July 7 – Ghana Textiles Printing launches a new line of designs inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.[128]
  • December 13 – Dakar's Fashion Week catwalk is moved to an outdoor baobab forest because of COVID-19 restrictions.[129]

Film and video

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Literature

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Music

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Sports

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Deaths

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January and February

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Allah Thérèse

March and April

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May and June

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July and August

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September and October

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November and December

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See also

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References

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  140. ^ Issiaka Ouattara, from rebel chief to controversial general
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  142. ^ Former Chief of Defence Staff Quashie is dead
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  147. ^ Liberty great Peter Aluma dead at the age of 46
  148. ^ Former Ogun Assembly Leader, Yinka Mafe, Dies After Celebrating 46th Birthday
  149. ^ Victor Olaiya, Nigerian highlife musician, dies at 89
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  151. ^ Mali : le doyen de la photographie Adama Kouyaté n'est plus (in French)
  152. ^ Décès en France de Erickson le Zulu, l'ex star du Coupé décalé (in French)
  153. ^ Breaking: Nigeria's ex-Minister, Emovon, is dead
  154. ^ Veteran Yoruba actor, Pa Kasumu is dead
  155. ^ TV3 Journalist Edward Kwabi Jnr Has Died
  156. ^ Sierra Leone's former Vice President Solomon Berewa has died
  157. ^ Le triple champion ivoirien de boxe, Bessé Mobio Henry, dit Sonny, est décédé (in French)
  158. ^ Décès de l’ancien président bissau-guinéen Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo (in French)
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  160. ^ Choral composer Ken Kafui dies
  161. ^ Professor Eldred Jones passes away
  162. ^ Enugu Rangers striker Ifeanyi George killed in car crash
  163. ^ Un grand patron de la microbiologie (in French)
  164. ^ "Opoku Afriyie 'Bayie': Asante Kotoko, Ghana Legend Passes Away At 75". Archived from the original on 2020-09-13. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  165. ^ Prince Narkortu Teye, Ghana loses second legend in two days as Kwasi Owusu passes away, Goal (March 30, 2020).
  166. ^ De nombreux joueurs réagissent à la mort de Pape Diouf (in French)
  167. ^ Football: Founeke Sy, l’ancien joueur du Djoliba AC, est mort (in French)
  168. ^ Mensah
  169. ^ Nuamah Donkor mourns Jacob Plange-Rhule
  170. ^ Edem Kodjo: Togo mourns ex-Prime Minister, Africa remembers ex-OAU chief
  171. ^ Akin Euba, the father of African pianism, dies at 84
  172. ^ Nigerian president's chief of staff dies from coronavirus -presidency spokesman
  173. ^ April 18: Sékou Kourouma: Guinea's chief of staff succumbs
  174. ^ Décès de Marie Rose Guiraud : Meiway est inconsolable (in French)
  175. ^ Richard Akinjide, Former Justice Minister, Is Dead
  176. ^ Mali: Le député Belco Bah mort de Covid-19 (in French)
  177. ^ Kumawood actor Bishop Bernard Nyarko dies
  178. ^ Niger: décès du ministre du Travail (in French)
  179. ^ Former Sokoto governor dies at 82
  180. ^ Togo / Deuil : Me Yawovi Agboyibo est décédé (in French)
  181. ^ Veteran actress ‘Miliky MiCool’ has died
  182. ^ Senator Bayo Osinowo Is Dead
  183. ^ Highlife Musician Nana Tuffour Has Died
  184. ^ Les Eperviers du Togo en deuil : l’attaquant Koudagba Kossi est mort (in French)
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  190. ^ Bishop Pierre-Marie Coty
  191. ^ CEO of Ghana Bankers Association Daniel Ato Kwamina Mensah confirmed dead
  192. ^ Baba Ibrahim Suma-Keita
  193. ^ Gambia Legend Momodou Njie ‘Biri Biri’ Dies after Long illness
  194. ^ Dr Doris Dartey passes on
  195. ^ L’ancien premier ministre ivoirien, Seydou Diarra, est mort (in French)
  196. ^ Nigerian center Michael Ojo passes away at 27
  197. ^ Mali: l'ancien président Moussa Traoré est mort (in French)
  198. ^ Togo en deuil : l’ancien Président de l’Assemblée nationale Fambaré Ouattara Natchaba est mort (in French)
  199. ^ Jerry Rawlings, ex-Ghanaian president, dies from COVID-19
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