Browsing: West Africa

Nigeria’s $20 billion Dangote Refinery, Africa’s biggest refinery that opened earlier this year, is now using the national currency, the Naira, instead of the U.S. dollar…

Following the horrific 9/11 attack that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, US President George W Bush declared a global ‘War on T*rror,’ which…

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger could be eying to join the BRICS economic bloc. Bamako’s foreign minister, Abdoulaye Diop, says he hopes the trio will make…

Gambian-born British citizen Momodou Taal, a 30-year-old PhD student at Cornell University, is facing the threat of deportation from the US. His crime? Pro-Palestine activism. According…

The West African country of Guinea gained independence on this day, 2 October 1958, after 65 years of French rule. When French President Charles de Gaulle…

Members of West Africa’s anti-imperialist bloc – the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) – have made multiple headlines this year by taking back control of their…

To make sense of social-media giants Meta, TikTok and YouTube recently suspending African Stream and other alternative media outlets, Breakthrough News’ Eugene Puryear (@eugenepuryear) and Rania…

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the president of Senegal, boldly defended Palestine at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. On 25 September,…

On 21 September 1909, Kwame Nkrumah, one of pan-Africanism’s founding fathers, was born in Nkroful, Gold Coast – now Ghana.   Nkrumah served as Ghana’s first…

A little over a year ago, Gabon’s ousted president, Ali Bongo, asked the world to ‘make noise,’ a plea that only memeified him instead (as seen…