“It’s a profit-making venture”: Past experiences lead some Nigerians to question Covid-19 vaccine
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...
Nigerian university students struggle with online learning
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...
Photo essay: Schools reopen after ten months of lockdown in Ghana
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....
Nigeria’s cold storage facilities may not be ready for Pfizer vaccine shipment
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...
Ten months of strike at Nigeria’s universities forces students to fend for themselves
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...
Assault on a senatorial candidate highlights the dangers women politicians face in Liberia
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 kill at least 19 wedding-goers in central Mali (Residents)
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...
Artisanal gold mining in Mali is an economic boon and an environmental disaster
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....
Covid-19 puts 1.4 million children out of school in Liberia
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...
At least 100 villagers killed in bloody weekend in Niger
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,...