
The leaders of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia have issued a joint declaration asserting that the governance of the Red Sea is the...
ByWest Africa WeeklyOctober 6, 2026Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have launched a joint television channel called Tafouk TV, a new regional broadcaster intended to promote the three...
ByWest Africa WeeklyOctober 5, 2026Barrick Mining has signed a new collective bargaining agreement with unions at its Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex in western Mali, averting strike action that...
ByWest Africa WeeklySeptember 30, 2026Ghana’s state-owned fuel distributor BOST Energies has reduced diesel and gasoline exports to Burkina Faso and Mali since August, prioritising domestic demand as...
ByWest Africa WeeklySeptember 18, 2026The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed that world football governing body FIFA has formally accepted the resignations of its former principal officers...
ByWest Africa WeeklySeptember 3, 2026Russia is expanding its military reach across Africa’s Sahel through an air shadow fleet of state and private aircraft supplying operations in Mali,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 24, 2026President Bola Tinubu has attributed the surge in insecurity across Nigeria to instability in neighbouring Sahel countries, claiming that problems in Burkina Faso,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 31, 2026Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has officially launched a new political party, formalising his break from former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and the...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 30, 2026The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has accepted the joint declaration of interest submitted by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to host the...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 23, 2026The Ghanaian government has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Gold Council (WGC) aimed at formalising the country’s artisanal...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 21, 2026Russia has pledged to maintain its military backing for the junta-led governments of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, the three countries announced on...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 9, 2026Mali has regained majority ownership of its national telecommunications company SOTELMA, reversing a privatisation deal that had kept the strategic asset under foreign...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 26, 2026