Browsing: West Africa

Niger hosted the historic ‘Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel’ on 19-21 November in its capital, Niamey. Socialists worldwide representing popular movements, labour…

This resurfaced viral clip shows frustrated young people in Ghana rejecting rice handouts – sent in by a minster who’d promised jobs at the last election.…

Burkina Faso can do fashion revolutions as well as ideological ones! Black gowns and white wigs – the traditional attire of the country’s court magistrates and…

It’s important to distinguish different types of coup. So argues Booker Omole from the Communist-Marxist Party of Kenya. This is him speaking at a recent conference…

The military takeovers in Africa’s Sahel region are not just coups d’état but revolutionary processes that aim to transform the arid area south of the Sahara…

The historic Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel took place 19-21 November in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Hundreds of participants gathered at…

Ghana is leading the way in reconnecting diaspora Africans to the continent. It’s just welcomed 524 newly minted Ghanaian citizens from all over the world at…

Nurses and other professionals are leaving Africa amid worker shortages in their home countries. This is understandable, given they can earn far more abroad and send…

In this clip, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo responds to a journalist’s question about Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger’s breakaway from – and potential for rejoining -…

In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case that independent media outlet West Africa Weekly pursued in the United States through legal web portal PlainSite, the…