Full Coverage: West Africa

29.05.2007 Angelique Kidjo and World Education will partner together to enable girls to go to secondary school in Mali and Benin. This effort will support 304 girls who have been orphaned by AIDS or whose families are affected by AIDS, are disabled or are extremely poor.

29.05.2007 Slavery isn’t dead, says Robtel Neajai Pailey: its modern-day variant is just found on a different kind of plantation.
From Red Pepper

21.05.2007 Progress on pledges to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care by 2010 "is staggeringly slow", warns a new report, with a third of AIDS deaths occurring in India, South Africa and Nigeria – three countries with some of the lowest scores on providing access to treatment.

14.05.2007 Nigeria has achieved universal salt iodization, the first African country to do so.

11.05.2007 The opening of the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor will take place on 4 June. the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone announced.
From Special Court for Sierra Leone

06.05.2007 “It’s ironic that what made black people feel so empowered was completely demoralising and destroying other black people” - rapper Kanye West comes face to face with blood diamonds.

03.05.2007 A unique campaign that ranges from personal discussions to mass media programs is convincing many in Mali to give up the practice of female genital cutting.

03.05.2007 Suomen koululaisten vuonna 2001-2002 keräämät taksvärkkirahat eivät ole menneet hukkaan. Rahoilla on autettu Burkina Fason maaseudulla toimivaa hanketta, ja vastavalmistuneen arviointiraportin mukaan hanke on onnistunut hyvin.

02.05.2007 Three African countries - with Ethiopia leading the "dishonour roll" - are among those where press freedom has deteriorated the most over the last five years, according to a new analysis by an international media organisation.