Full Coverage: West Africa

27.10.2006 As many as 4,000 Mahamid Arabs living in southeast Niger since the 1980s or before will be forced to return to Chad, the government said Tuesday, citing ethnic tensions that developed over increasingly scarce resources.

19.10.2006 The international community should support Liberia's emerging democracy by forgiving the country's odious and burdensome debt, an Africa campaigning group said Wednesday as Liberia's leader visited Washington.

17.10.2006 A fight over a promised independence, which began in 1980, continues to roil a piece of northern Senegal, though no one can say for sure what the fighting is for anymore.

10.10.2006 Prominent AIDS activist and journalist Omololu Falobi was killed during an armed robbery near Lagos Thursday. Those who knew him are expressing outrage and sadness this week while remembering his incredible work.

10.10.2006 Two countries abolished the death penalty in 2006, but two others are considering re-instating the practice, which human rights advocates say is imposed in many countries despite appallingly low court standards.

06.10.2006 Nigeria has been producing oil for decades, yet Nigerians remain as poor as their forefathers. A new producer, Chad had quickly veered from its plan to put oil revenues toward development. Now Liberia has begun oil exploration. Emira Woods looks at Africa's crude problem.

05.10.2006 from OilChange:
How a global oil company dumped up to 400 tons of toxic waste on the doorstep of some of the world’s poorest people in the Ivory Coast in order to save costs.