
The legal battle over the controversial 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final has entered a decisive new phase, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport ordering the Royal Moroccan Football...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 30, 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, 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, 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, 2026A woman has come forward after facing threats over a nursery school passage she shared online, which highlights a textbook authored by Ayengbe...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 25, 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 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, 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, 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, 2026Across the sun scorched cocoa belt of Ivory Coast, farmers are looking anxiously at the sky. The world’s top cocoa producer is in...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 21, 2026The government of Nigeria has been thrown into a deep fiscal crisis following a bombshell World Bank report that exposed a hidden spending...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 21, 2026Pressure is mounting on the Independent National Electoral Commission after a forensic investigation cleared its chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, of owning a partisan...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 21, 2026On April 16, 2026, Mali’s Transition President Assimi Goïta received the letters of credence from four new ambassadors during an official ceremony held...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 20, 2026Three 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, 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 Cyril Ramaphosa used his Freedom Day address to warn South Africans against turning frustration over illegal migration into hatred for fellow Africans,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 28, 2026A user on X has sparked outrage after sharing a desperate plea from Nigerian medical and engineering students studying in Russia under a...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 28, 2026A user on X has pointed out what many frequent flyers across Africa have long suspected but rarely proven. The user wrote, “International...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 28, 2026A controversy is growing in Rivers State over a textbook approved for use by Junior Secondary School 1 students after excerpts showing explicit...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 28, 2026The Confederation of Sahel States known as AES has issued a strong condemnation of the terrorist attacks that struck Mali on April 25,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 27, 2026Ghana is set to launch a new electronic visa system on May 25, 2026, after the country’s cabinet formally approved a policy that...
ByWest Africa WeeklyApril 27, 2026