Morocco beat South Africa 2-1 and Algeria beat Ivory Coast 2-1 on August 8; Cameroon eliminated defending champions Nigeria on August 9; Malawi stunned Ghana 2-1 on August 9, qualifying for their first ever FIFA Women's World Cup, completing the four-team semi-final lineup for the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco
Three more teams, Cameroon, Morocco, and Algeria, qualified for the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2026 quarterfinals on August 3-4 in Morocco; Algeria sealed Kenya's elimination with a draw in Rabat; Senegal finished third in the group with four points; the quarterfinal line-up is now set
Nigeria's Super Falcons defeated Zambia 1-0 in their Group C second fixture at the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations in Rabat, Morocco on August 1, with Asisat Oshoala scoring the winner while Nigeria played with ten players after a red card; in Group B on the same day, South Africa rallied from 2-0 down to draw with Côte d'Ivoire, while Burkina Faso narrowly beat Tanzania
Nigeria's Super Falcons crushed Egypt 6-2 in their Group C finale at the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations on August 5, reaching the quarterfinals against Cameroon; Asisat Oshoala left injured; South Africa beat Burkina Faso 1-0, with Thembi Kgatlana scoring in the 21st minute, to set up a quarterfinal against hosts Morocco; Côte d'Ivoire topped Group B after beating Tanzania 2-1
The Ivorian government's July 2 Council of Ministers statement put the death toll at 59 since May, with 20 fatalities from a single round of Abidjan flooding in late June; 7.5 million people are at risk across the sub-region
Flash floods and landslides from a multi-day West African rain event killed 12 in Greater Accra and at least 12 more in Abidjan on June 29-30; June 2026 set Ghana's highest monthly rainfall on record, with 140mm falling on Accra in a single day, and President Mahama authorized emergency contingency funds
Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana produce two-thirds of the world's cocoa, the tropical crop behind all chocolate, making West African harvests a global commodity price signal.
ALCoMA, the management authority for the 1,028km six-lane highway linking Abidjan to Lagos across five countries, inducted its first board of directors in February 2026 and appointed Beninois economist Wilfried Lauriano do Rego as chair in June
The cabinet dissolved the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) on May 7 following years of opposition accusations that it was a RHDP tool; a replacement body has not yet been named