Full Coverage: West Africa

20.07.2006 President Yahya Jammeh’s "police state" is stepping up the pace of arrests and harassment of journalists in the run-up to The Gambian elections scheduled for September, according to an international media watchdog.

20.07.2006 "We saw these livelihoods being stolen because of our government's policy," said one member of a delegation of American farmers just back from a trip to visit farm families in West Africa.

17.07.2006 Women in Ghana have launched a campaign against domestic violence in support of a parliamentary bill on the issue.

14.07.2006 Have you known or heard of someone who has died before their fifth birthday? Do you feel child mortality is a great concern in your community? What could you do to help? Kids in Liberia, India, and elsewhere react to those questions and more.

13.07.2006 Man Dem Nor Glady'O (Creole for "The People Are Not Happy") - a documentary about how the UN and other international bodies dealt with the consequences of war in Sierra Leone but failed to deal with the causes - will be screened in London on 11 August at the Tricycle Cinema.

05.07.2006 OneWorld South Asia has published a two-year action research report - Improving Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness of Pro Poor Government Services - that shows that information and communication technologies (ICTs) plan an important role in enabling people to have better access to government services.

05.07.2006 Riskisyntymä, työtä pienestä pitäen, teiniavioliitto, toistuvat raskaudet, väkivalta, köyhyys, varhainen vanheneminen. Siinä on monen sierraleonelaisen naisen elämä lyhyesti. Pitkästä sodasta toipuva Sierra Leone on YK:n inhimillisen kehityksen mittarin mukaan maailman toiseksi kehittymättömin maa, jossa kärsitään joka päivä nälästä, sairauksista ja turhista kuolemista.

04.07.2006 From Sudan to Kosovo and Liberia, Mercy Corps shows how soccer can be used to bring people together, spark community reinvestment, and teach young people about HIV/AIDS.

03.07.2006 The African Union has decided that former Chadian president Hissene Habre will take the stand in Senegal to face charges of crimes against humanity, and Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade has promised that the trial will go ahead.