Full Coverage: West Africa

29.08.2006 Ghana and the World Bank have signed two separate agreements for a grant of $55 million towards the implementation of the e-Ghana Project and the education for all-fast track initiative.

28.08.2006 As Nigeria prepares for a major political transition, its leading literary voice, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, talks about where West Africa's pivotal state is going, and the cultures that will drive it there.

24.08.2006 Laura Cardinal wonders who among the children hawking goods in Lagos has been trafficked.

21.08.2006 The World Bank Group has approved a $40 million loan to Ghana, to support the implementation of selected components of the government?s Information and Communications Technology, (ICT) for Accelerated Development Policy.

21.08.2006 Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency and the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase information communication technology penetration in Nigeria.

14.08.2006 Nigeria will soon publish the names of past and present leaders who looted the nation's treasury, including some who are waiting in the wings to take power in 2007, the country's chief investigator said Thursday.

08.08.2006 The world's second largest tropical rainforest, gradually diminishing due to unregulated and often illegal extractive activities, is in need of preservation. From villages to presidential offices, efforts are being made to ensure a hopeful future for the Congo River Basin.

02.08.2006 Motorbike taxi drivers are swarming around Benin in pro-education t-shirts, chatting with women about the importance of educating girls.