Full Coverage: West Africa

31.03.2003 Kwaku A. Danso writes about how telecommunications might serve to raise the overall prospects of Ghana's economic sector.

31.03.2003 Kwaku A. Danso writes about how telecommunications might serve to raise the overall prospects of Ghana's economic sector.

27.03.2003 A handful of young people forge a strategic alliance between Nigeria and Ghana to push for development. They work on bridging the digital divide, include youth in mainstream policy-making and find ICT-related solutions to Africa's problems.

26.03.2003 A British couple has donated IT materials and other valuable goods that will help the Sanyang Daycare centre in Gambia's Banjul to introduce information technology in the school and take better care of its pupils.

26.03.2003 El Tribunal Superior d'Apel·lacions de la sharia de Katsina (Nigèria) ha ajornat, fins al 3 de juny, la vista del recurs contra la condemna a mort d'Amina Lawal, acusada d'adulteri. El 22 de març del 2002, Lawal va ser sentenciada a morir per lapidació i la sentència, confirmada a l'agost, hauria d'executar-se el 2004. Amnistia Internacional continuarà recollint signatures per salvar la seva vida i la d'altres condemnats a mort pel mateix mètode. Fins ara se n'han aconseguit un total de 3.572.000.

26.03.2003 El Tribunal Superior de Apelaciones de la sharia de Katsina (Nigeria) ha aplazado hasta el 3 de junio la vista del recurso contra la condena a muerte de Amina Lawal, acusada de adulterio. El 22 de marzo de 2002, fue sentenciada a morir por lapidación y el fallo, confirmado en agosto, debería ejecutarse en 2004. Amnistía Internacional continuará recogiendo firmas para salvar su vida y la de otros condenados a muerte por el mismo método. Hasta ahora se han presentado 3.572.000 firmas.

26.03.2003 Continuing displacement of Liberians as a result of fighting between government and rebels could quickly overburden the scarce resources of humanitarian agencies, the United Nations reported yesterday.

24.03.2003 Adjo, a 12-year old girl in Togo, persuades her poor mother to send her to school instead of making her work. Nine months later, Adjo can read, write and calculate in the local dialect and in French. Now she helps her mother and wants to become a teacher.

24.03.2003 Better coordination between educators and broadcasters, increased community involvement and increased use of audio are some of the steps essential to make distance learning more effective, widespread and affordable, says a Commonwealth of Learning report. The report uses findings from five case studies in sub-Saharan Africa to make its recommendations.

18.03.2003 Olorogun Lucky Oghene-Omoru, the Delta gubernatorial candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party, has promised to computerize all the schools in the state in such a way that every secondary school will have a computer centre.

17.03.2003 A new IIICD-supported research project that recently kicked off in Ghana will focus on the use of low-tech digital technologies in the creation and distribution of local knowledge relevant to mother and child health.

13.03.2003 An army of unemployed youth combs the streets of Lome to pick up the garbage littering Togo's capital these days. This not only leads to a clean environment but also helps them make a living.

13.03.2003 The United States has launched the Digital Freedom Initiative, a new programme that aims to promote economic growth in the developing world through ICT. It will be piloted in Senegal and if successful, could be rolled out to 20 countries in the next five years.

13.03.2003 "On vaikea uskoa, että niin monet lapset on pakotettu nälkäpalkalla orjiksi kaivoksiin. Se on pöyristyttävää", YK:n apulaispääsihteeri Olara Otunnu kommentoi Sierra Leonessa näkemäänsä. Hänen erityisalanaan on lasten kohtalo aseellisissa konflikteissa.

13.03.2003 The voting intentions of Cameroon, Guinea and Angola are under the spotlight in the tense stand-off in the UN Security Council over use of force against Iraq. The 15-member Council is split, with France leading a strong opposition to war that includes two other permanent council members - Russia and China, as well as non-members Germany and Syria.

12.03.2003 A five-year support programme launched in Guinea-Bissau will focus on getting more girls into school. It will also cover child protection, nutritional health and primary education.

12.03.2003 Länsiafrikkalaisen Burkina Fason maanviljely on tähän asti ajoittunut lähes yksinomaan kesäkuusta syyskuulle kestävään sadekauteen. Kuivalla kaudella kimppuun on hiipinyt nälkä, jota nyt yritetään torjua pienimuotoisilla keinokasteluhankkeilla.

11.03.2003 Ivory Coast's army rejected rebel claims that they carried out a massacre of hundreds of people in a lawless region contested by several rebel and pro-government groups.

10.03.2003 Ivory Coast's feuding factions have agreed to the formation of a national unity government of reconciliation, at crisis talks held in Ghana at the weekend.

07.03.2003 Nigerians have been called upon to invest in ICT education of their children and wards because it pays the best dividend as an investment in human capital and in the future of the nation.