In February, Burkina's military killed over 223 people in the villages of Soro and Nondin, per Human Rights Watch report. Elian Peltier traveled to Ouagadougou to speak with witnesses. “They shot at us all.” nytimes.com/2024/05/11/wor…

West Africa correspondent Elian Peltier traveled to Ouagadougou and heard from witnesses to a massacre by Burkina Faso's military. He and Christiaan Triebert examined supporting evidence. nytimes.com/2024/05/11/wor…

My latest from #IvoryCoast where over 50,000 people are being evicted from their homes – practically overnight and without any compensation – to make space for luxury hotels, shopping centers and a marina. Thousands of children are now left without a home or a classroom.

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"Io Capitano" depicts migration from Africa to Europe in ways rarely seen in Western cinema. Last month, I watched it in a suburb of Dakar with the film’s crew and young Senegalese for whom migration is not fiction nytimes.com/2024/05/18/wor…

"The investigation — focused on Tunisia, Morocco and Mauritania, three countries with some of the deepest E.U. partnerships — amounts to the most comprehensive attempt yet to document European knowledge of and involvement with anti-migrant operations in North Africa."

How the Haitian gang 5 Segonn is trying to turn itself into a militia nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Lean on Me: Kenya's President William Ruto starts a state visit in Washington today, at a time when the U.S. is running out of fast friends in Africa nytimes.com/2024/05/22/wor…

We reported from #Omdurman, where we saw the worst and best of #Sudan: an RSF torture chamber and a doctor who’s feeding the poor and displaced in his war-torn neighbourhood. With ⁦Soren Munk⁩ ⁦Zahra Warsame⁩ ⁦Channel 4 News⁩ channel4.com/news/inside-su…

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni woos Africa - on migration and energy issafrica.org/iss-today/ital…

Mdou Moctar, Tinariwen, Ali Farka Touré and Orchestra Baobab all in this nice selection of West African music 🎸 nytimes.com/audio/app/2024…

"[One source] said there was no hesitation internally over spying on the prosecutor, adding: 'With Bensouda, she’s black and African, so who cares?'" theguardian.com/world/article/…

📣 Are you a doctor or a hospital worker in Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire? I'd love to hear from you for a story. Reach out here or at [email protected]. Je cherche à échanger avec docteurs et personnels de santé en Côte d'Ivoire et au Ghana pour un article. DM si intéressés.

A year of war has devastated Sudan. Ivor Prickett and I spent nearly a month in the country recently. This is our first dispatch from the capital, Khartoum — the ground zero of a catastrophic conflict. nytimes.com/2024/06/05/wor…

Mpox vaccines that Congo critically needs to stem the outbreak are trapped in a byzantine drug regulatory process at the World Health Organization, my colleague Stephanie Nolen writes. nytimes.com/2024/08/23/hea…

Another deadly rainy season in West and Central Africa, another season deadlier than the previous ones. Essential reporting by my colleagues across the region, including in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria. nytimes.com/2024/09/15/wor…

At least Malian 20 soldiers have been injured in an attack by JNIM in Bamako — the first terrorist attack in the capital since 2015. Several dead as well according to sources. Our story with Ruth Maclean and Christiaan Triebert nytimes.com/2024/09/17/wor…