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Military breakthrough delivers economic jolt to Nigeria’s northeast Northeastern Nigeria’s decade-long battle against Boko Haram and ISWAP has reached a decisive new phase, with the Nigerian military announcing the neutralization of more than 1,100 jihadists […]
A Paris storefront whose effects reach well past the shelves Paris is about to spend almost a month keeping time with Benin. From 22 September to 17 October 2026, the Fnac Saint-Lazare devotes an unusually […]
Benin’s president Romuald Wadagni opened a two-day official visit to Rwanda on Wednesday 16 September 2026, and the trip’s most closely watched moment — a stop at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Gisozi — is […]
The 2025 inauguration and the consequences it set in motion When Burkina Faso unveiled the mausoleum of Thomas Sankara and his twelve companions on 17 May 2025, the ceremony was designed to project far beyond […]
In Burkina Faso, an official score of 85.38% administrative performance for 2025 is being held up as proof that the state delivers. For the family queueing for a birth certificate that never comes, the small […]
A deadly helicopter raid by the Algerian military has left at least 48 civilian gold miners dead in a remote desert area along the Niger-Algeria frontier. The attack, carried out by a Mi-171 gunship, has […]
A contested legacy in Ouagadougou In Burkina Faso, the figure of Thomas Sankara has long ceased to be a mere historical reference. It now occupies a central place in the political narrative of the transitional […]
On the morning of Tuesday, 15 September 2026, the banks of the Niger River on the outskirts of Gao became the scene of a bloody assault attributed to Russian mercenaries of Africa Corps. By summarily […]
Gabon now has a clearer picture of its public debt. Following an audit commissioned by the state and finalised as of 31 December 2025, the consolidated stock has been set at 9,524.643 billion CFA francs, […]
Digitalisation du foncier au Gabon : le Ministre de l’Économie rejoint le protocole avec SNEDAI GROUPE par · 15 septembre 2026 éorte sur la mise en place d’un système foncier et cadastral entièrement informatisé, sécurisé […]
A steep and sudden decline in Niger’s uranium production The management of the Société des mines de l’Aïr (SOMAÏR), once presented as the ultimate proof of reclaimed sovereignty, has turned into an industrial shipwreck. According […]
More than eighteen months after the July 26, 2023 coup, the patriotic facade projected by Niger’s military junta is cracking in ways that are impossible to conceal. Behind the sovereignist rhetoric and the carefully staged […]