Encounters with Nigerian police: Oyekanmi’s story
Illustration by Ngadi Smart
To honor the #EndSARS movement, Sahelien.com has solicited stories of encounters with Nigerian police, and commissioned artist Ngadi Smart to illustrate...
Mali : Why is the CMA calling for postponement of the...
In small steps, Mali is moving towards three types of coupled elections: local elections, regional elections and partial communal elections. But, some voices are...
Mali : Towards the establishment of a sanctions regime to accelerate...
The UN Security Council could vote, on Tuesday, September 5, to establish a "general sanctions regime" for Mali. The objective is, according to sources...
Assailant targets witness in Dolal Idd police killing in Minneapolis
By Joe Penney
An unknown assailant shot at least five bullets at the residence of a witness to the January 30th police killing of Dolal...
Mali : Emmanuel Macron visits the Barkhane forces in northern Mali
While the new President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, is expected in Mali this Friday, the military strategy of the forces of Barkhane...
Niger: the opposition takes a stance after the extension of the...
In a press release issued on Wednesday August 16, the political opposition gathered under the denomination of the Front for the Restoration of Democracy...
The #RepealSSMPA protest got people talking. But what’s next?
By Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye
The hashtag #RepealSSMPA began to trend on Nigerian Twitter and beyond on March 21st, 2021. #RepealSSMPA was a solidarity action in...
Mali: Liberation of Kidal Camp I, the CMA expresses its concern
The chiefs of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) made a media appearance on Monday May 29 to discuss the peace and reconciliation agreement...
Without new TPS protections, Biden’s immigration bill will exclude Black immigrants
By Joe Penney
When 26-year-old Cameroonian asylum seeker Wilfred Tebah was reunited with his family in Columbus, Ohio, in early February, one of the first...
#FreeSenegal: A Woman Started It
By Haddy Jatou Gassama
Adji Sarr is the name of the woman who ignited one of the biggest and deadliest sets of protests in Senegal’s modern...