Full Coverage: West Africa

20.11.2007 MyQuestion - launched today - will enable Nigerian youngsters to ask questions about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS issues through text messages, without even having to say the questions out loud.

18.11.2007 Nigeria should launch an independent public inquiry into the police shooting of more than 8,000 people since 2000, says an international rights group.
From: Human Rights Watch

13.11.2007 The Winneba Open Digital Village and Rescue Mission Ghana are organising a three day training workshop on Web 2.0 tools for development from December 10-13, 2007. The training will focus on emerging web based social, business and technology developments and define future web trends.

13.11.2007 Vaikka Länsi-Afrikan konfliktitimanttien kauppaa on koetettu estää monituisin kansainvälisin sopimuksin, osa jalokivistä kulkeutuu yhä vuotavien valtiorajojen yli Euroopan, Yhdysvaltain, Japanin ja Intian timanttimarkkinoille.

13.11.2007 Despite a ban by the UN and other efforts by the international community to stop the sale of conflict diamonds, porous West African borders have allowed the diamonds to reach major markets, according to recent reports.

13.11.2007 Journalists from Guinea-Bissau live under permanent threat from Colombian drug traffickers and their local accomplices, whose criminal activities have been eating away at the country for years, says a new report, Cocaine and coups haunt gagged nation.

08.11.2007 Umaru Yar'Adua has become the first African head of state to criticize the Zimbabwean president -- citing his disregard for the rule of law -- in the lead up to next month's Africa-Europe summit.
From: SW Radio Africa

07.11.2007 Susan Smith of the National Confectioners Association responds to OneWorld's article on fair trade chocolate for Halloween.

06.11.2007 This is a publication of the first report in Balancing Act’s new series African Telecoms and Internet Markets. Part 1 covers 16 countries in West Africa and shows that the sub-region has experienced strong growth in both the mobile and Internet sectors since 2003.

05.11.2007 Bloggers in Burkina Faso have learned to circumvent a system where traditional media is subject to constant censorship from a secretive regime and are succeeding in freeing people's minds, comments blogger Ramata Sore.

01.11.2007 Following in the footsteps of the governments of China, Germany, Nigeria, and the United States, the World Bank finalized its cancellation of Liberia's debt this Tuesday.
From: The News (Liberia)

01.11.2007 Explore, through this video, the daily routine of one doctor in a small, isolated village in Southern Mali as he tends to the medical needs of over 40,000 patients.

01.11.2007 An agricultural research organization in Benin has developed new, environmentally friendly sustainable farming techniques that are particularly beneficial for farmers inflicted with HIV/AIDS, while maximizing resources and production.