APRNEWS - West African leaders and European ministers are in Accra, the capital of Ghana, to discuss regional solutions to the insurgency that is spreading as foreign troops withdraw from Mali, where militants have seized large swaths of territory.

France, Denmark and Ivory Coast are among the countries that ended their military cooperation with Mali this year due to the ruling junta's cooperation with Russian mercenaries.

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced dates for reopening of schools across the country amid fears of a second coronavirus wave in the west African country.

Schools were shut in March last year after the country reported its first case of the virus. Since then more than 55,000 cases have been confirmed, with 54,005 recoveries and more than 300 deaths.