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...

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...

By Mody Kamissoko African states like Mali are among the least polluting nations in the world, but often bear an outsized cost of the effects...

By Hauwa Shaffii Nuhu When pharmacist Khadijah Adamu logged into Twitter in February, 2019 to narrate the horrific physical abuse she survived at the hands...

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...

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...

After a political career that marked the history of democratic Mali, Soumaïla Cissé’s death has disturbed the political scene and Mali as a whole.

Méma is situated at a pastoral crossroads between the Malian regions of Segou, Mopti, Timbuktu and the Mauritanian border that welcomes hundreds of herders...

By Joe Penney Governments across West Africa have implemented emergency measures to fight a second wave of coronavirus as cases climb. West African states have avoided...

By Alpha Diallo After five years of near constant terrorist attacks, the President of Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, was re-elected for a second five-year...

By M. A. Diallo Malian media organizations denounced what they described as a government crackdown on the press and freedom of expression in a press...

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...

Facebook announced on Tuesday that it had dismantled a French military disinformation campaign targeting Mali, Central African Republic and other countries, as well as...

By M. A. Diallo The National Union of Workers of Mali (UNTM) launched a nationwide strike on Monday, December 14, 2020 and will continue until...

Directed by Ousmane Samassékou “The Forgotten Ones” follows Sory Kondo, a young Malian journalist working for the news website Sahelien.com. Told he cannot to reach...

By Baba Dakono As part of Sahelien.com’s commitment to peace, transparency, and justice in the Sahel region, over the past two years our team has...

By Elimane Ndao Senegal will launch its Covid-19 vaccination campaign by March 2021, according to Elhadj Mamadou Ndiaye, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. "Senegal has...

By Omar H. Saley The Nigerien government announced it would close all schools from December 17, 2020 to January 1, 2021 to fight the rising...

By Saratu Abiola The protest movement now known as #EndSARS began when the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police shot a man...

Photographs and text by Misper Apawu Ghanaians went to the polls on December 7 to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections. Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo...