Browsing: West Africa

On 14 January, Niger’s students took to the streets in a mass mobilisation with a clear message of support for their government, known as the National…

Burkina Faso announced on 16 January that over 1 million internally displaced people had made their way back to 165,375 households and 697 localities by 31…

In part 2 of our video series on women in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), an anti-imperialist Pan-African confederation regrouping Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger,…

While on the campaign trail, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama criticised now-former President Nana Akufo-Addo’s closeness to Western states. Akufo-Addo advocated for French troops to remain…

The president of the revolutionary Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Assimi Goïta, has officially announced that the confederation will start issuing passports from 29 January. That’s…

On this day in 1963, one of Africa’s most illustrious revolutionary organisations, the PAIGC – that is, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and…

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have teamed up to form a joint military force of 5,000 troops whose job it will be to tackle armed groups…

Fifty-two years ago today, on 20 January 1973, Amílcar Cabral was shot dead, about eight months before Guinea-Bissau’s unilateral declaration of independence. The great revolutionary pan-Africanist…

Nigeria sits smack in the middle of Françafrique, a French sphere of political, economic and military influence over ex-colonies in West and Central Africa. Content creator…

In his powerful clapback to French President Emmanuel Macron’s 6 January disparaging comments about Africans, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré left no stone unturned on 13…