A historic turning point in Sahelian sovereignty, as Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger bolstered their regional security through a unified military force and in the same week held its second AES summit.

Guinea-Bissau’s election commission has claimed inability to announce election results after soldiers siege ballots and destroy servers holding the voting data after a coup allegedly staged by the outgoing president. Opposition parties accuse the commission of collaboration.

Ghana’s president John Mahama unveiled a plan for visa-free travel between African countries in his keynote address to an international conference organized by the Pan-African Progressive Front to commemorate eighty years of the historic 5th Pan-African Congress.

Opposition candidates are barred from contesting the November election in Guinea-Bissau as the “neocolonial agent”, Umaro Embalo, maneuvers to consolidate his ECOWAS-backed dictatorial regime.

Solidarity events in Kenya and Tanzania marked two years since the formation of the Alliance of Sahel States, celebrating the Sahel’s bold anti-imperialist stance and vision for sovereignty.

New World Bank report projects the country’s GDP growth to be the highest on the African continent in 2025

Niger’s revolution in July 2023 and the creation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) reignited the spirit of sovereignty and Pan-African resistance across the continent. A recent webinar hosted by Pan African Today explored the significance of this moment.

The step toward judicial integration further advances the unification of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger under the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), which earlier this year unveiled a common flag and a regional passport, allowing its people to cross borders freely.

Only one of over 300 towns and villages of a Local Government Area in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno remains in government control, Governor warns.

Ostensibly meant to foster greater cooperation between Francophone countries, the three countries allege that the OIF has become “a remote-controlled political instrument” operated from Paris to suit its “geopolitical considerations”.

From the small peasants to farmers with relatively large land-holding, Niger’s farming community explains to Peoples Dispatch why they support the popular anti-France military government.

Ahead of the “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel” in Niamey, Peoples Dispatch brings forth stories of resilience and resistance of the people of Niger whose success in forcing their former colonizer France on the retreat has inspired Pan-African movements across the continent.