
The Confederation of Sahel States known as AES has issued a strong condemnation of the terrorist attacks that struck Mali on April 25, 2026, calling them a coordinated aggression designed...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 27, 2026India has dispatched a consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes of rice to Burkina Faso as humanitarian assistance aimed at supporting food security for...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 2, 2026The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, issued a clear warning on Tuesday, stating that Nigeria cannot sustain...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 1, 2026The Tinubu government is pushing Nigerians to file their 2025 personal income tax returns before the March 31 deadline, but the process has...
ByWest Africa WeeklyMarch 30, 2026Nigeria has been revealed as Africa’s largest customer of surveillance technology contracts, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually and at least $2.7...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 1, 2026Nigeria currently has the highest inflation rate in West Africa, according to February 2026 data from Trading Economics. At 15.06%, the country leads...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 16, 2026The sitting chairperson of the African Union, Évariste Ndayishimiye, has praised the ground realities in Burkina Faso following a high level visit to...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 21, 2026The credibility of President Bola Tinubu’s government has plunged into crisis, both at home and abroad, as a pattern of debunked official claims,...
ByWest Africa WeeklySeptember 28, 2025The Tinubu regime has cancelled the Independence Anniversary parade, previously scheduled to mark Nigeria’s 65th Anniversary of Independence on Wednesday, October 1. This...
ByKangmwa GofwenSeptember 30, 2025Three Senegalese football supporters have been released from a Moroccan prison after serving three month sentences for their role in the violence that...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 20, 2026On April 17, 2026, Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) issued a formal notice to broadcast stations nationwide, warning of stricter enforcement of the...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 20, 2026The Nigeria Police Force has been hit with fresh accusations of institutionalised ethnic bias after announcing the extradition of a murder suspect to...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 17, 2026Nigeria currently has the highest inflation rate in West Africa, according to February 2026 data from Trading Economics. At 15.06%, the country leads...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 16, 2026The Ghanaian cedi has recorded its strongest first quarter performance in over five years, offering a measure of relief for Ghana as it...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 16, 2026The government of Mali has approved a sweeping new policy aimed at transforming the country’s water sector over the next decade. The decision,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 16, 2026A Paris criminal court has convicted French cement giant Lafarge of financing terrorism, ruling that the multinational paid millions of euros to the...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 14, 2026The past three national budgets have not been implemented, and the funds have been diverted for vote-buying. This is the explosive allegation made...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 14, 2026The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) is witnessing the early fruits of its ambitious drive toward deeper economic integration, as member nations accelerate...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 13, 2026The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has issued a fresh weather alert warning of thunderstorms and strong winds expected across several parts of the country....
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 13, 2026There is a unique energy in Port Harcourt every August and September. The smell of smoky plantains roasting over open flames fills the...
ByIkenna ChurchillSeptember 18, 2025Babatunde Apalowo has always been drawn to stories that feel intimate. His debut, All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and...
ByIkenna ChurchillSeptember 10, 2025The crackle of a Montana winter seems worlds away from the humid whispers of Igbo folklore. Yet, in a Bozeman editing suite, filmmaker...
ByIkenna ChurchillJuly 17, 2025Foreign intelligence agencies and foreign organisations – including those tied to the CIA, Britain’s MI6, and US billionaire Bill Gates – are directly...
ByMayowa DurosinmiJuly 11, 2025The United States Embassy in Kampala, Uganda is actively involved in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) activities targeting audiences in East Africa....
ByWest Africa WeeklyMay 26, 2025The editor behind Gangs of Lagos, Sista, and Makemation talks about invisible storytelling, creative trust, and why caring about the project is everything—often...
ByIkenna ChurchillMay 16, 2025Taiwo Egunjobi returns with “The Fire and the Moth,” a tense thriller we previewed after a private screening, delving into local lore and...
ByIkenna ChurchillMay 7, 2025West Africa Weekly’s EIC David Hundeyin and Aaron Greenspan of Plainsite have won the lawsuit [No. 23-1816 (BAH)] which they jointly instituted against...
ByMayowa DurosinmiApril 13, 2025President Bola Tinubu has approved a ₦17 billion Community-Based National Social Action Fund for all 8,804 political wards across the country, an announcement...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 23, 2026A storm is brewing over Nigeria’s electoral future as a former INEC Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, has raised a critical alarm. In a...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 23, 2026President Bola Tinubu replaced his finance minister, Wale Edun, with Taiwo Oyedele on April 21, 2026, in a cabinet reshuffle that also saw...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 22, 2026The foreign ministers of Niger and Mali have accused neighbouring countries of sponsoring terrorism, but said they were willing to cooperate on some...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 22, 2026A fresh diplomatic storm is brewing after a United States lawmaker publicly accused Nigeria’s Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, of attempting...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 22, 2026The sitting chairperson of the African Union, Évariste Ndayishimiye, has praised the ground realities in Burkina Faso following a high level visit to...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 21, 2026