#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...
Researchers are digitizing Nigeria’s cultural heritage. But can they bring stolen...
By Nosmot Gbadamosi
Last August, artist Emeka Ogboh received a call. The world was in the thick of unwavering Black Lives Matter protests that toppled...
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...
Gunmen kidnap 317 schoolgirls in Zamfara state, Nigeria
By Dounard Bondo
Gunmen kidnapped 317 schoolgirls from the Government Girls School in Jangebe town, Zamfara state, in northern Nigeria overnight from Thursday to Friday....
Ivorian start-ups say they’re left out of the Covid-19 response fund
By Ahmed Coulibaly
After the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Côte d'Ivoire in May 2020, the Ivorian authorities set up multiple funds to help...
Citizenship in the land of freed slaves
By Dounard Bondo
Liberia held a constitutional referendum on whether to repeal its long-standing dual citizenship prohibition on December 8, 2020. If passed into law,...
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...
Guinea begins Covid-19 vaccination campaign despite low trust in government
By Youssouf Bah
On Wednesday, Guinea became the first West African country to begin its Covid-19 vaccination campaign. It started with a 60-dose pilot trial...
A last tribute to Soumaïla Cissé in Bamako
By Mody Kamissoko
Hundreds of people filled the Palais de la Culture in Bamako on Friday, January 1st, 2021, to pay a last tribute to...
Niger elects a new president
By Omar Hama Saley
Niger heads to the polls this Sunday, December 27, to elect a new president after outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou completed his...