• Sarah Leduc

Nigerians fleeing extremist violence at home take refuge across the border in Niger among an already fragile population. Together they proceed to carve out a way to live better lives for now.

• Rob Lemkin
• Femi Nylander

The death of two protesters last month in Niger, could bring pressure for a meaningful Truth and Reconciliation for French colonialism in Africa.

• Rob Lemkin
• Femi Nylander

The mass atrocities of the 1899 French invasion of what is Niger today are finally being treated with the gravity and consequence they deserve in Western popular histories.

• Scott Remer

Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.

• Ousmane Zoromé Samassekou
• Aïcha Macky

An interview with the filmmakers, Ousmane Samassekou and Aïcha Macky, about their films: two stunning documentaries creating new narratives about migration.

• Rahmane Idrissa

How local conflicts in the Sahel-Sahara over justice, or rather its absence, get dragged into tensions between outsiders.

• Jacob Mundy

There is a collective national ignorance that surrounds the United States' vast military presence in Africa.

• Jacqueline Traoré

Nigerien band Anewal eschews explicit politics and sings mostly of harmony and brotherhood.

• Sarah Burgess

Safiath, ZM, Habsou Garba and Fati Mariko: producing diverse sounds in rap, hip-hop and soul.

• Sarah Burgess

Bombino, the Tuareg musician from Agadez in northern Niger, wants to show the world the multiple, and often joyful sides of life in the region.

• Sarah Burgess

Tal National's music is breezy, in all Niger's languages and about topics to which everyone can relate: love, peace, and the beauty of women.

• Elliot Ross

• Elliot Ross

Journalists rarely ask the IMF chief technocrat to consider whether or not she gives any kind of a shit about the people who are getting screwed by her "austerity" agenda.

• Sean Jacobs

• Boima Tucker