The African Tribune

Mariama Hamani
News
September 16, 2026
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Benin’s month at Fnac Saint-Lazare: public reaction, unresolved questions and the road ahead

Paris has spent close to four weeks talking about Benin, and the conversation shows no sign of cooling down. From 22 September to 17 October 2026, the Fnac Paris Saint-Lazare…

Boureima Amadou
Politics
September 16, 2026
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Senegal’s discretionary funds: political tug-of-war over transparency keeps oversight stalled

The political battle over Senegal’s special discretionary funds has reached a new impasse, with the latest parliamentary push for oversight now in tatters after a constitutional setback. Months of debate…

Boureima Amadou
News
September 16, 2026
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What Benin is debating after Wadagni’s Kigali visit — and where Cotonou-Kigali ties head next

Kigali — Benin’s president Romuald Wadagni opened a two-day official visit to Rwanda on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, a trip that has quickly become a talking point at home and…

Mariama Hamani
News
September 16, 2026
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Sankara’s mausoleum: the widening rift between state memory and family grief

The inauguration of the Thomas Sankara mausoleum in Ouagadougou on 17 May 2025 was staged as a moment of national and continental significance. The ceremony, held at the site of…

Boureima Amadou
News
September 16, 2026
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Reckoning after the applause: Burkina Faso’s 85.38% efficiency score and the debate that follows

Burkina Faso’s transitional government has awarded itself a striking grade: 85.38% administrative performance for 2025. For households already worn down by growing precarity and by the daily struggle to reach…

Mariama Hamani
Top Stories
September 16, 2026
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Niger’s September 2026 reshuffle: the fallout, the backlash and the road ahead

A desperate fix, not a plan The decree that General Abdourahamane Tiani signed on 15 September 2026 has convinced almost no one. Billed as a routine “technical reorganization,” the first…

Mariama Hamani
Top Stories
September 16, 2026
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Niger’s press freedom under siege: global outrage, local resistance, and the road ahead

A growing storm over Niger’s media landscape The military government’s recent move to impose a new legal framework on electronic media and foreign press has ignited a firestorm of criticism…

Mariama Hamani
Culture
September 16, 2026
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Unrest in Niamey: foiled mutiny exposes cracks in Niger’s military

A failed mutiny at Niamey’s Air Base 101 in late August ended with devastating consequences—claiming the lives of at least 13 members of the Presidential Guard and leaving numerous others…

Mariama Hamani
News
September 16, 2026
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Algerian helicopter strike on Niger border kills 48 gold miners as Niamey stays silent

At least 48 civilians lost their lives when an Algerian military helicopter fired on an artisanal gold-mining camp straddling the frontier between Niger and Algeria, turning a remote stretch of…

Mariama Hamani
News
September 16, 2026
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In Burkina Faso, the Sankara family stands apart from Ibrahim Traoré’s memory politics

When a state claims ownership of a revolutionary’s memory In Burkina Faso, the figure of Thomas Sankara has long ceased to be a purely historical reference. It now occupies a…

Mariama Hamani
News
September 16, 2026
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Gao carnage: Africa Corps kills 167 civilians and burns 127 motorbikes along the Niger river

A riverside morning turns into a killing ground It was barely past sunrise on Tuesday 15 September 2026 when the rattle of automatic fire and thick black smoke drifted across…

Boureima Amadou
Top Stories
September 16, 2026
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Gabon’s public debt audit brings borrowing back under the CEMAC ceiling

Gabon now knows, with far greater precision, what it actually owes. The state’s public debt audit, whose cutoff date is 31 December 2025, has fixed the consolidated stock at 9,524.643…