Increasing cases of media frenzy in times of conflicts and crises help to create a gap in the understanding of what critical role the media play. Oftentimes, questions about what influence foreign media to concentrate on some African conflicts and ignore others are raised. Or what approaches does local media take in reporting conflicts and crises also form part of the epistemic knowledge gap in the (de)construction of media relations with conflicts. Yet, in all this puzzlement, a scholarly approach to unrevealing this critical puzzle remains diffused. This chapter therefore underscores cases of competition and contestation in media reporting of conflicts in West Africa, outlining non-linear prisms of conflict communication and the ensuing mediated politics at play. It approaches these intellectual tasks by prioritizing the Boko Haram kidnap of Chibok school girls in Nigeria and the 2023 military coup d’état in Niger Republic as salient and empirical case studies in showcasing prisms of conflict communication and how crises get mediatized and politicized in West Africa.