Independent English-language coverage of Burkina Faso's most pressing news and developments.
What does it take to spend an entire century shaping a continent’s literary voice? That is the question raised by the milestone now being marked in Benin and across Africa: Olympe Bhêly-Quenum, born on 20 […]
The debate spilled over everywhere this weekend, even onto the set of Ligue 1’s SAV. As a guest on the show after matchday 5, our journalist Jonathan Helbling discussed the tense end to the game […]
What happened on the Diabali-Niono road? On 20 September 2026, a joint patrol of Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) soldiers and Russian Africa Corps paramilitaries was ambushed on a dusty track between Diabali and Niono. The […]
Ukraine’s large-scale drone assault on the Moscow region in September has forced a difficult question to the surface: can Russia still shield its own territory from a war it chose to launch? The attack targeted […]
The newly appointed board of Benin’s Health Sector Regulatory Authority (ARS) was formally sworn in on Friday, 18 September 2026, at the Palais de la Marina in Cotonou. President Romuald Wadagni presided over the ceremony, […]
Société Nigeria farmer-herder violence: can North West Cameroon absorb another 600 refugees? More than 600 Nigerians have crossed into Cameroon to escape renewed farmer-herder clashes, raising a difficult question for local authorities: how much more […]
When a man who spent decades shaping a nation’s financial architecture passes away, the question is not only who he was, but what remains of his work. Abdoulaye Koné, former Minister of Economy and Finance, […]
In Mali’s increasingly fraught media environment, the line between factual reporting and wartime communication has not simply blurred — it has been deliberately erased. At the centre of this shift stands the online portal Maliweb.net, […]
Burkina Faso’s leadership has decided to train its own military elite at home. The Tiéfo-Amoro Institute of Higher Military Education is now tasked with preparing officers in strategy, command, crisis management and geopolitics. Its first […]
Aimé Martial Massamba, Gabon’s Minister of Fisheries, Maritime Affairs, and Blue Economy, has been tasked with steering preparations for a fresh fisheries partnership with the European Union. Meeting on Friday, September 18, 2026, at the […]
The unanswered question hanging over Senegal’s local polls Senegal’s political landscape is caught in a strategic dilemma. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has kept the nation guessing about when local elections—theoretically slated for January 2027—will actually […]
Can West Africa’s dormant savings finally be turned into the engine of its own financial sovereignty, or will the region remain dependent on external capital? That was the urgent question hanging over Cotonou on 17 […]