Author: Ousmane Tandja

Cameroon’s anglophone regions under lockdown: a decade of unrest and the fallout on october 1st The symbolic date of October 1st has once again exposed deep divisions in Cameroon’s anglophone regions, where a decade-long crisis continues to reverberate through the North-West and South-West. As separatists called for a « ghost town » strike, security forces were deployed in force, but the real battle may now be fought in the court of public opinion and on the streets of Bamenda and Buea.

Cotonou — The fallout from Benin’s latest foray into international capital markets is still being digested, and the debate it has ignited stretches well beyond the finance ministry. Working alongside the African Development Bank Group, the Beninese government has secured €500 million to bankroll a series of high-impact investments. The operation, which builds on the country’s Government Action Programme, is being read as a turning point in how public debt is managed across sub-Saharan Africa — and it has set off a wider conversation about what comes next for African…

When militants struck two distant points in Burkina Faso on the same day, the pattern behind the violence became clearer than any single battlefield report. On Saturday 26 September, a Burkinabè soldier was killed during an assault on a military position in Lalgaye, in the Koulpélogo province of the Centre-Est region. Hundreds of kilometres away, around Ouahigouya in the north, coordinated incursions destroyed heavy equipment. The claim of responsibility, issued on Thursday 1 October by the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), did more than confirm the…

When Captain Ibrahim Traoré seized power in Burkina Faso on 30 September 2022 by toppling Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, he promised a radical break with the past. Four years on, the junta leader portrays his tenure as a story of territorial reconquest, a strengthened army, restored national sovereignty and a clean rupture with several Western partners. Yet beneath that carefully managed narrative, a closer look reveals a far more complicated reality — one shaped by persistent insecurity, mass displacement and a steadily shrinking civic space. How the counter-insurgency strategy was…

Inside Air Sénégal’s crew suspension: what really happened on the Dakar-Paris route Thu, October 1, 2026 at 9:45 AM UTC When Air Sénégal quietly grounded its entire cabin crew on the Dakar-Paris route in mid-September, few outside the airline understood the scale of the problem. The decision, taken on September 17, was not a routine scheduling adjustment. It was the result of mounting suspicions that some crew members had been using their positions to transport parcels for payment—a practice strictly forbidden by the company. The internal investigation, according to sources…

In a dramatic turn of events that has sent shockwaves across West Africa, the Nigerien journalist Moussa Kaka has been missing since August 31, igniting a firestorm of criticism over what observers describe as shocking indifference from African and international bodies. The situation has reached a critical juncture, with prominent human rights advocate Alioune Tine condemning the forced disappearance and demanding immediate action. From silence to mobilization: The turning point in Kaka’s case The disappearance of Moussa Kaka, a well-known voice in Niger’s media landscape, has become a rallying cry…

The ambush of a Russian Africa Corps convoy by the JNIM on September 28, 2026, north of Niono, in central Mali, has become a defining moment in the Sahel’s security crisis. The attack, which resulted in both human and material losses for the Russian paramilitary unit, marks a decisive shift in the jihadist group’s ability to strike at the heart of foreign military operations. How the ambush unfolded On the morning of that Monday, a military convoy carrying fighters from Africa Corps—the Russian paramilitary structure that replaced the Wagner Group…