Host Côte D’Ivoire has won gold in the 2023 AFCON final, beating Nigeria 2-1. This marks the third AFCON Win for the Ivorian national team (called the “elephants”), having won in 2015 and 1992.

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Nigeria formally withdrew from regional body ECOWAS on January 28. Will concerns about losing more members jeopardize the regional response to Senegal’s constitutional crisis?

• Check out the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science’s new profile on the Elite Africa Project!
• Aya: Claws Come Out is the latest installment in a series of graphic novels by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrere. First published in 2005, the series portrays the lives of friends growing up in 1970s Côte D’Ivoire and is loosely inspired by Abouet’s own life. In 2013, the first two novels were adapted into a film. Claws Come Out is the first new book in 12 years.
• The Central Bank of Nigeria announces new limits on the amount of foreign exchange that foreign oil producers can instantly remit to their parent companies. The move is intended to combat depreciation of the naira.

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Image: Ivorian flags. 27 April 2013. Photo credit: Skiper, CC-BY-SA 3.0.