By Pelumi Salako On February 5, 2021, The Central Bank of Nigeria released a circular that restricts Nigerian banks, non-banking financial institutions and other financial...

Armed assailants attacked a forward base of the UN mission (Minusma) in Kerena, near Douentza in Mali’s central Mopti region on Wednesday, February 10,...

By Elimane Ndao Since the beginning of the pandemic in Senegal, physical, economic and psychological violence against women has increased by 15 to 30 percent,...

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,...

By Mody Kamissoko “Breast cancer: What to know and how to recognize it” was the theme of a conference in Bamako on World Cancer Day...

By Ope Adetayo On December 15th, 2020, the Nigerian National Commission issued a directive that all SIM cards must be linked with the owner’s National...

By Sidi Yahiya Wangara and Mody Kamissoko Over the course of three days, Timbuktu played the rhythms of Mali at the 5th edition of the...

By Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu “Now we understand the layers of public traumas that formed the psyche of our parents. They were not the silent generation....

By Caleb Okereke Lagos, Nigeria – Nigeria expects its first 100,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in February, according to Dr. Faisal Shuaib, head of...

By Ope Adetayo For the past ten months, Ahmad, a 21-year-old undergraduate student in the faculty of arts at the University of Ilorin, has been...

Photographs and text by Misper Apawu On January 15, Ghanaian students went back to school after being locked out of the classrooms for ten months....

By Nosmot Gbadamosi On January 6, Nigerian authorities announced that they expect to receive 100,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the end of January...

By Pelumi Salako When the Academic Staff Union of Universities of Nigeria (ASUU), the umbrella body for Nigerian lecturers, started a two-week strike in March...

By Dounard Bondo GBARPOLU COUNTY, Liberia – Liberia’s senatorial elections elections did not take place as planned on December 8 in Nomodatonau town, Gbapolu county,...

French airstrikes killed at least 19 wedding-goers in Bounti, near Douentza in central Mali on Sunday, January 3, according to residents of Bounti who...

By Michel Yao and Sory Kondo The Malian town of Kéniéba, near the borders with Guinea and Senegal, is well known for its gold sites....

By Varney Kamara BONG MINES, Liberia - Fatu Flomo, 53, is a farmer and a mother of four children and three grandchildren. Victoria, Flomo’s youngest...

By Omar Hama Saley On Saturday, January 2, 2021, armed men attacked the villages of Tchiombangou, 22 kilometers from the commune of Mangaïzé, and Zaroumdarey,...

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...

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...