Full Coverage: West Africa

26.10.2007 WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (OneWorld) - Hip-Hop is not dead, at least not in Africa. That was the consensus after a recent screening here of the forthcoming documentary, "African Underground: Democracy in Dakar."

25.10.2007 Limited access to food, health care, and outside assistance, compounded with recent bouts of ethnic violence and government and militia reprisals, has led a UN agency to warn that northern Niger may be on the brink of a humanitarian crisis.

24.10.2007 Mercy Ships works with Sierra Leoneans who lacked access to polio vaccines during the country's civil war and now suffer with the disease.
From: Mercy Ships

17.10.2007 After a 14-year civil war was brought to a halt by UN peacekeepers, Liberians elected Africa's first female head of state. Under President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the country is slowly but surely pushing forwards in terms of economic growth, democracy, and education, writes Steve Radelet from Liberia.

15.10.2007 The need for the Liberian government to provide jobs, education, and rehabilitation, while fighting widespread corruption, is more important than ever now that the civil war has ended, says Liberian journalist Cholo Brooks.

11.10.2007 Two former commanders of a pro-government militia have been convicted by a local tribunal of war crimes they committed during the country's prolonged civil war in the 1990s.

10.10.2007 Suah, a young Liberian woman who lost an eye at the age of two, was denied entrance to nursing school because of her disability. But thanks to a floating clinic complete with ophthalmologists, Suah received a prosthetic eye and was able to get a job teaching others about HIV/AIDS.
From: Mercy Ships

04.10.2007 Faced with the dual challenges of international competition and a small home market, not many ICT entrepreneurs would simply pick up their bags and move to a bigger market. But that is what Soft Tribe’s Joe Jackson did. In this interview with Russell Southwood he talks about the challenges Soft faced and how things are working out.

01.10.2007 The recent death of a Burkinabe girl after undergoing female genital mutilation has alarmed local residents, prompted several arrests, and caused a strategy shift in the battle to end the illegal practice.

01.10.2007 Disabled youths -- victims of the Liberia's gruesome 14-year civil war -- play soccer at home and around the world, yet continue to sleep on the streets. The Pulitzer Center's Liberia project is examining child soldiers' reentry into society through blogs, photos, videos, and other reporting.

01.10.2007 Togo and Benin can now boast of a telecommunications link between following the launch of a fibre optic cable linking the two countries. The ceremony was attended by the two country's heads of states who later paid a short visit to the signal centres.