
Three young Nigerians have made their country proud by winning gold medals at the 2026 International STEM Olympiad held in Rome, Italy, competing against students from 154 countries around the...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 8, 2026Representatives from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique have launched a new initiative to remove persistent bottlenecks on regional transport corridors, acknowledging that border delays,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 10, 2026A video from election day in Nigeria showed polling stations opening hours late. Another clip from Zimbabwe showed ballot papers running out while...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 8, 2026Nigeria has been removed as a full participant from the International Mathematical Olympiad after the Federal Government failed to fund the country’s participation...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 25, 2026Fear has gripped residents of the Danare community in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State after more than 200 heavily armed...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 10, 2026A disturbing new low has been uncovered on social media after reports emerged that armed bandits hosted a live cash giveaway on TikTok...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 8, 2026Benin’s President Romuald Wadagni has officially extended an invitation to Mali’s transitional president, General of the Army Assimi Goïta, for a working and...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 10, 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, 2025At least 13 people have died in Ghana’s capital, Accra, after torrential rains triggered severe flooding that submerged homes, destroyed buildings and cut...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 1, 2026Senegal’s lawmakers have passed a controversial constitutional reform that expands the powers of parliament while curbing those of the president, triggering protests outside...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 1, 2026Seven months into the 2026 fiscal year, the Bola Tinubu administration has failed to publish Nigeria’s full-year 2025 budget performance report, raising fresh...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 1, 2026The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N1.7 trillion for the construction of the Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway, a flagship infrastructure project under President...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 1, 2026The Presidents of the Parliaments of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES) have adopted a motion of support for Burkina Faso, firmly condemning...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 30, 2026Namibia has reaffirmed its demand for Germany to pay reparations for the genocide of the Herero and Nama people, describing Berlin’s formal apology...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 29, 2026The Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) has pledged to support Nigeria with technical expertise, research collaboration, and investment opportunities to help close the...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 29, 2026Burkina Faso’s military government has announced the immediate severance of diplomatic relations with France, accusing the former colonial power of actions that undermine...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 29, 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, 2026Nigeria has been removed as a full participant from the International Mathematical Olympiad after the Federal Government failed to fund the country’s participation...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJune 25, 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, 2025Three years into President Bola Tinubu’s administration, Nigeria’s security crisis has deepened across multiple fronts, with school abductions, banditry attacks and terrorism deaths...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 6, 2026Senegal’s national football team remains stranded in Seattle five days after their dramatic World Cup elimination, after the Senegalese Football Federation failed to...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 6, 2026A 23-year-old Nigerian medical graduate, Nnani Adaobi Marian, has died from injuries sustained in a Russian airstrike on Kharkiv, Ukraine, just days before...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 6, 2026Residents of Kwara State have voiced growing anger and fear after the state government constructed a makeshift “container bridge” using shipping containers on...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 6, 2026The International Monetary Fund has confirmed that the Nigerian government spent approximately N8.83 trillion in 2025 without recording it in the national budget....
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 6, 2026Harry Kane scored twice in the final 15 minutes as England came from behind to defeat the Democratic Republic of Congo 2-1 in...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 3, 2026