Full Coverage: West Africa

28.04.2006 he young man who studied engineering at the University of Benin is from the Fantsuam Foundation [1], an APC affiliated non-profit founded in 1996 in the city of Jos, Nigeria. From the outset, it was known that his group planed the development of a unique computer that could fight the heat, dust and take on the challenging power situation of rural Africa [2]. But Onoberhie reveals details around the ‘Solo’.

27.04.2006 Ivory Coast has become the sixth African country to announce the outbreak of the dreaded bird flu. Viral strains taken from infected backyard chickens in the capital Abidjan have tested positive H5N1 avian influenza. Ivory Coast joins Egypt, where four people have been killed, Niger, Cameroon, Sudan and Nigeria. This comes as 19 African countries gathered in Malawi announced that the continent lacks funds, technical equipment and human resources to spot and tackle outbreaks of the disease.

26.04.2006 The focus of this research was to develop a sustainable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) model in a Nigerian community, by evaluating ICT provision in South Africa's disadvantaged communities and comparing it with the Nigerian situation; to identify applicable models and service mechanisms; and, to identify pitfalls and risks.

25.04.2006 To complement our team, we expect to recruit an enthusiastic and team-orientated colleague. IICD’s mission is to assist developing countries in the use of ICT as a strategic tool for sustainable development and poverty alleviation. IICD does this through empowering local organisations and stakeholders to make effective use of ICTs on their own terms, and through catalysing lessons learned and knowledge sharing on ICTs by local organisations and the international community.

25.04.2006 The Nigerian government must take the lead in ending discrimination against millions of "non-indigenes" -- citizens who cannot show that their family roots are native to the community in which they live -- in part to better secure the country's increasingly fragile unity, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released here (Washington)Tuesday.

19.04.2006 After a chase of over 1,000 miles, a six-day occupation and hours of diplomatic negotiations, Spain has finally agreed to declare the cargo from the "Binar 4'" - 200 tonnes of fish from West Africa - illegal. Guinean officials also announced they would be fining the owners and operators of the vessel.

18.04.2006 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf issues a report on her administration's "First 150 Days Action Plan" - and today launches a national education policy for girls.

18.04.2006 The Liberian Government will launch a National Girls’ Education Policy today.

17.04.2006 Funding cuts have left Nigeria's university libraries virtually unable to purchase new books, but many librarians are finding the Internet to be their "saving grace."

14.04.2006 The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative Regional Network for West & Central Africa was launched in Dakar yesterday by a partnership of UN agencies, national and local governments and NGOs.

13.04.2006 Activists have climbed on board what they claim is "an illegal cargo vessel full of fish stolen from Guinean waters" and painted the words "Stolen Fish" on both sides of its hull.

12.04.2006 The African Union has been urged to send a mediator to Banjul to assess whether the July AU summit there should be postponed because of the Gambian government's illegal detention of two newspaper executives.
* CPJ calls on Pakistani and US authorities to reveal all information about missing journalist

12.04.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 11 (OneWorld) - Investors concerned about illegal child labor on West African plantations are demanding that Hershey Co. spill the beans on where the candy maker gets its cocoa.

06.04.2006 A rapid-education project for out-of-school children traumatised by the Sierra Leone civil war is now helping children in neighbouring Liberia to return to school.

04.04.2006 After 14+ years of war and some three years in exile, Charles Taylor finally faced a court indictment Monday, pleading not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Security concerns prompted a request to move the trial to The Hague.

01.04.2006 Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, currently being held in Sierra Leone on war crime charges, will make his first appearance in court on Monday, according to a United Nations spokesperson.

01.04.2006 Representatives of Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta have suggested that pipeline vandalisation, hostage-taking and attacks on facilities would be ended if oil revenue was paid to host communities rather than to state governments.