On the front of today's The New York Times, a shifting baby boom in Africa and the story of the six Sani children and their parents. With Yagazie Emezi's beautiful photo. nytimes.com/2024/10/21/wor…

‘How a TV Hit Sparked Debate About Birthrates in Africa’. Very good, insightful piece by Ruth Maclean and @yagazieemezi about family decision-making in #Kano (and elsewhere) nytimes.com/2024/10/21/wor…

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Delighted to announce that Saikou Jammeh Saikou Jammeh has joined us The New York Times as a Reporter/ Researcher. We're very lucky to have his years of experience and knowledge of the region in the West Africa bureau. Please send story ideas, tips etc his way!

Exclusive — The luxury jet that landed in Juba was on a secret mission to pick up $25 million worth of smuggled Sudanese gold. It was another sign of the wartime gold rush driving Sudan's brutal war, even as the nation slides deeper into famine. nytimes.com/2024/12/11/wor…

A litany of horrors in Sudan’s war, filmed by the perpetrators themselves and expertly dissected by a team led by ⁦Sanjana⁩. Proud to have helped with this incredible investigation. nytimes.com/video/world/af…

The anthem of Mozambique's protests over a disputed election, by Tavares Cebola and John Eligon nytimes.com/2025/01/02/wor…

Congo's president is looking to cut a minerals deal with the U.S. and Europe. He's hoping they will heap pressure on Rwanda, which backs an armed group that has seized swaths of his country. My latest – an interview with Felix Tshisekedi. nytimes.com/2025/02/22/wor…

After two years of fighting, Sudan's military has retaken the presidential palace in Khartoum. A key moment in a catastrophic civil war. Reporting from Khartoum with Ivor Prickett and Abdalrahman Altayeb nytimes.com/2025/03/21/wor…

The spires of Ghana’s national cathedral are yellow construction cranes, which haven't moved in years. It frequently reverberates with singing — the singing of a choir of frogs that moves in whenever its half-finished foundations fill with rainwater. nytimes.com/2025/05/03/wor…

The anti-FGM influencer who went under the knife to create something she never had – an adult vulva. nytimes.com/2025/06/02/wor…

“The Americans — they really want us to face problems,” said Helena Saykiamien, a 75yo Liberian who uses the $200/ month her daughter in Delaware sends to buy food, medicine and school fees for the eight children who live with her. nytimes.com/2025/06/03/wor…

When the bombings and gun battles in Goma finally abated, teens across the city slipped out of the homes they had been hiding in since a rebel invasion started. They were all headed to the same place – the basketball court. nytimes.com/2025/08/08/wor…

I am so sad to report that Papa Joseph, the small, wise and doughty main character in this story, died last year aged ~86. I will never forget him and his stick with the perfect kink in the middle. He knew centuries of Lokolama's history and it's hard to imagine it without him.