Browsing: West Africa

The president of the revolutionary Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Assimi Goïta, has officially announced that the confederation will start issuing passports from 29 January. That’s…

On this day in 1963, one of Africa’s most illustrious revolutionary organisations, the PAIGC – that is, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and…

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have teamed up to form a joint military force of 5,000 troops whose job it will be to tackle armed groups…

Fifty-two years ago today, on 20 January 1973, Amílcar Cabral was shot dead, about eight months before Guinea-Bissau’s unilateral declaration of independence. The great revolutionary pan-Africanist…

Nigeria sits smack in the middle of Françafrique, a French sphere of political, economic and military influence over ex-colonies in West and Central Africa. Content creator…

In his powerful clapback to French President Emmanuel Macron’s 6 January disparaging comments about Africans, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré left no stone unturned on 13…

Togo President Sylvanus Olympio was the first leader assassinated in post-colonial Africa. We look back at the circumstances surrounding his killing sixty-two years ago. But one…

The BBC has always been trigger-happy when it comes to firing off negative headlines about Africa. On Thursday, it claimed Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré “sparked…

He was African Stream’s Man of the Year 2024 – and if the cheers in Ghana’s Black Star Square on Wednesday are anything to go by,…

Guinea’s founding leader, Ahmed Sékou Touré – one of Africa’s leading statesmen of all time – was born on this day (9 January) in 1922. As…