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What does it truly mean when a nation decides to list its sovereign debt on a regional stock exchange? For Senegal, the answer is now unfolding after the country successfully …
Senegal’s BRVM bond listing: a strategic masterstroke or a debt trap in disguise? Read More
Benin Road safety in Benin: can the police crackdown on traffic offences really save lives? The Republican Police has stepped up enforcement against traffic violations across the country. As fines …
Road safety in Benin: can the police crackdown on traffic offences really save lives? Read More
Is the World Bank’s $5.3 billion active portfolio in Côte d’Ivoire enough to turn the country’s employment ambitions into reality? That is the question hanging over Abidjan this week as …
Can Côte d’Ivoire’s $5.3 billion World Bank portfolio really deliver three million jobs? Read More
Nearly 300 armored vehicles, branded “Nanga” (scorpion), are said to have been produced or adapted locally in Burkina Faso since November 2025. Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the country’s transitional president, has …
Can Burkina Faso’s 300 Nanga armored vehicles possibly be real? Read More
The Togolese capital, Lomé, has become a discreet hub for Chadian rebel leaders and armed movements. While official statements frame their presence as part of regional peace mediation, the reality …
Faure Gnassingbé’s Use of Chadian Rebels: What’s the Real Risk for Togo’s Democracy? Read More
The disappearance of Moussa Kaka in Niamey raises a question that now hangs over every newsroom in Niger: can journalists still do their jobs without disappearing? Kaka, the director-general of …
Moussa Kaka’s disappearance in Niamey: can Niger’s journalists still work without fear? Read More
Published today at 15:22 Reading time: 1 minute. File generated on Read in the app Damien Glez Franco-Burkinabè cartoonist and editorialist. By Jeanne Ntouba — Reporter
Cameroon’s glasses affair: did four journalists pay too high a price for a simple question? Read More
Has the russian paramilitary campaign in Mali quietly crossed a threshold that now threatens to unravel the very narrative it was meant to defend? That is the uncomfortable question emerging …
Mali: is 358 russian troops lost in three years a price Moscow can no longer justify? Read More
At least 48 people have died and nearly 180 others fell severely ill after drinking locally brewed alcohol laced with methanol in Ondo State, south-west Nigeria. The question now haunting …
Can Nigeria’s methanol-tainted alcohol tragedy in Ondo be stopped before it repeats? Read More
Can the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) reconcile its loud rhetoric of sovereignty with a quiet, lucrative arrangement with Washington? That’s the uncomfortable question hanging over Bamako, Niamey and Ouagadougou …
Will the AES trade its sovereignty for a $410 million US migration payout? Read More
A national day that feels more like a warning On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, Mali marks 66 years since it claimed international sovereignty. Yet six decades after the 1960 declarations, …
Mali at 66: can independence still mean anything when the guns never fall silent? Read More
On the occasion of Independence Day, the address to the nation by the president of the Transition, Army General Assimi Goïta, struck a triumphant tone. Between promises of economic growth, …
Mali’s independence speech: does Assimi Goïta’s narrative hold up against the facts? Read More