Full Coverage: West Africa

26.06.2007 Senegalese village women are now able to attend school and learn new skills rather than spending dusk till dawn performing the basic tasks necessary for survival. Their emancipator? A machine.

26.06.2007 NEW YORK, Jun 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1 million children in West Africa would not go to bed hungry if Washington stopped providing subsidies to America's cotton growers, according to a study released Thursday by an influential development organization.

19.06.2007 Thousands of young Nigerian women are trafficked into sexual slavery each year, but European groups are working hard to support the victims and deter and arrest those who prey on young girls.

18.06.2007 Rush Hour, a photographic montage of rush hour in Sierra Leone with a bustling soundtrack, runs at the Museum of Docklands from 6 July to 1 November.

18.06.2007 Länsi-Afrikassa sijaitsevaa Kap Verden saarivaltiota ei jatkossa enää lueta köyhimpien maiden joukkoon. YK:n mukaan maan tilanne on viime vuosina kohentunut niin paljon, että sen voidaan katsoa olevan keskituloinen kehitysmaa.

08.06.2007 Civil war in Ivory Coast has been financed partly by cocoa, according to a new report that urges consumers and chocolate companies to help end the financing of conflict.

07.06.2007 The Nigerian government is demanding $7 billion in compensation from pharmaceutical company Pfizer for damages resulting from a clinical trial run by the company in 1996.

06.06.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Jun 5 (OneWorld) - Both the United Nations and some of the world's leading human rights organizations are welcoming the start of the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

05.06.2007 Some 700 communities in Mali are already profiting from the affordable renewable energy provided by a plant grown in the region. The country hopes to one day meet its entire power needs with this hardy plant, inevitably boosting the standard of living for the county’s 80-percent rural population.

05.06.2007 Unless the underlying causes of Sierra Leone's recent civil war are tackled, instability and violence are increasingly likely as the country approaches the elections, say Brian Thomson.
From Chatham House