Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a ‘chocolate meltdown’
‘When it’s this hot, time stands still’: surviving west Africa’s blistering heat
February 2024
I’d be embarrassed to have a football stadium named after me. A park, however …
Adrian Chiles
How would I like to be remembered? With a playground, a bandstand and a little lake, writes Adrian Chiles
January 2024
‘I was not feeling safe’: Afcon bus crash casts shadow over assurances
Journalists tell of their experience after the vehicle returning them to Abidjan from the Guinea-Senegal match hit a barrier
December 2023
‘Brands to avoid’: Mars and Cadbury among chocolate firms criticised in ethics report
Only 17 out of 82 companies investigated were found to use suppliers that paid cocoa farmers enough to live on
June 2023
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Massive strike pits African fishers against ‘superprofitable’ EU firms
About 2,000 crew members withdrew labour over pay and conditions, as well as citing serious breaches of overfishing rules by Spanish and French companies
May 2023
Cocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study finds
Musician Peter One’s incredible story: ‘I had this dream … it’s starting to come true’
January 2023
‘Retirement will come the day I’m buried’: Ivory Coast grandmothers are left holding the baby
Young people are abandoning their villages and children for the bright lights, leaving their mothers to pick up the pieces
December 2022
How Ivory Coast is winning the fight to keep its children out of the cocoa fields
Hunger has taken hold across Africa. We need a new approach to tackling its causes
President Alassane Ouattara
November 2022
Gold, guns, gangs: on patrol with the elite unit saving Ivory Coast’s forests
The Audio Long Read
Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century – podcast
October 2022
The long read
Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century
The long read: By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is this breakneck-pace development happening faster than this 600-mile stretch between Abidjan and Lagos
July 2022
Opinion
Françafrique is back: Macron’s visit to Cameroon signals Colonisation 2.0
Vava Tampa
The French president sees himself as a break from old colonial ways. But his visit to the despot Paul Biya tells a different story
May 2022
Mother and Son review – moving immigrant drama goes from Ivory Coast to Paris
A son reflects on the struggles he faced with his brother and wayward mother after they moved to France from Africa, in a meditative coming-of-age story
April 2022
Cadbury faces fresh accusations of child labour on cocoa farms in Ghana
A new TV documentary alleges that children as young as 10 are using machetes to harvest pods
March 2022
‘Some people are freaked out’: how Laetitia Ky tackles abortion, sexism and race with her extraordinary hair
Rights and freedom
People of colour fleeing Ukraine attacked by Polish nationalists
November 2021
‘A deep, spiritual connection’: ancient families of Ivory Coast – in pictures
Nuits Balnéaires worked with local artisans and craftsmen to tell the stories of the seven great families of the N’zima Kotokô tribe – from banana planters to gold miners
