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...
Malian farmers lose their crops to climate change
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...
The #ArewaMeToo movement endures
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...
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...
Encounters with Nigerian police: Ayomide’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...
Malian opposition politician Soumaïla Cissé dies from Covid-19 at 70
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.
With no police or military presence, communities in Mali’s Méma region settle conflicts on...
Méma is situated at a pastoral crossroads between the Malian regions of Segou, Mopti, Timbuktu and the Mauritanian border that welcomes hundreds of herders...
West Africa confronts a second wave of coronavirus
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...
Security and reconciliation: Roch Kaboré’s second term challenges for Burkina Faso
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...