
Ghana and Russia have signed their first-ever visa waiver agreement, covering holders of diplomatic and service passports, a development that marks a significant shift in bilateral relations nearly seven decades...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 18, 2026A senior Sierra Leonean government official has declared that the “whole sane world” holds Peter Obi in high esteem, contrasting the Nigerian opposition...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 31, 2026Ibrahim Traore, the head of Burkina Faso, has issued a stark warning to anyone seeking to challenge his authority, declaring that he will...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 22, 2026Burkina Faso’s transitional President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has declared that Sharia law will never be allowed in the country, reaffirming the nation’s secular...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 23, 2026President Bola Tinubu signed the Electoral Act 2026 into law on February 18, 2026, but it is only now, as the 2027 general...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 13, 2026In 2012, Djibouti had effectively eliminated malaria within its borders, with just 27 cases recorded for the entire year. Then came Anopheles stephensi,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 8, 2026A Washington-based lobbying firm retained by former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar has begun circulating more than 60 pages of United States Department...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 22, 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, 2025The number of hungry people in Nigeria has risen from 18.6 million to 34.7 million in just three years, an increase of 16.1...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 31, 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, 2026Ghana’s government has accepted a proposal to extend the presidential term from four to five years and lower the minimum age for presidential...
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, 2026A Nigerian family of five saw their dream vacation become a traumatic ordeal when Royal Caribbean forced them off the ship in Greece,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 30, 2026Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has charged Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and issued an international warrant for his arrest,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 29, 2026Nigeria’s Super Falcons will begin their quest for an unprecedented 11th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title on Tuesday when they face tournament...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 28, 2026Uganda’s health minister has officially declared the country Ebola-free, bringing an end to the East African nation’s latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 28, 2026The cost of obtaining a Nigerian passport has soared to N200,000 for the 64-page ten-year validity booklet under President Bola Tinubu’s administration, nearly...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 27, 2026Algeria began their 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a convincing 2-0 victory over Senegal in Sunday’s Group A opener at...
ByWest Africa WeeklyJuly 27, 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, 2025The Ghana National Tomatoes Traders and Transporters Association has expressed skepticism about a newly signed defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and Burkina Faso,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 14, 2026Ghanaian cocoa farmers are pushing back against a newly passed law that restricts how they can use their own land, urging President John...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 14, 2026The Ebonyi State House of Assembly has passed a legislation to regulate scrap trading, house rents and estate agent fees in a bid...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 14, 2026President Bola Tinubu has once again assured Nigerians that the Warri and Port Harcourt refineries will soon resume operations, a promise that follows...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 14, 2026Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has given his full backing to the establishment of the first National Park in Nigeria’s South-East geopolitical zone,...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 13, 2026President Bola Tinubu has signed the Deep Offshore Oil and Gas Projects Incentives (Tax Remission) Order, 2026, a policy framework he says will...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 13, 2026