Full Coverage: West Africa

25.02.2007 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently travelled to Washington, DC. One year into her presidency, Sirleaf reflected on her government’s achievements, and the many challenges her country must still confront.

19.02.2007 President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed former President Ibrahim Babangida as special envoy at the head of a peace mission to Guinea in an attempt to stem continuing violence there.
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14.02.2007 Riots sparked by discontent over the government have prompted autocratic President Lansana Conte to declare martial law in Guinea, keeping the country's Red Cross from tending to the hundreds wounded in the previous days clashes.

12.02.2007 How much of the goodwill showered to Liberia since the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will be translated into action for reconstruction, asks Abdoulaye W. Dukulé as a donors' meeting opens in Washington.

09.02.2007 Positive Living, an initiative by the Centre for Development and Population Activities, is working with Nigerian families affected by HIV/AIDS to strengthen home-based care across the country.

09.02.2007 Since 2002, hundreds of thousands of Ivoirians have been forced from their homes by civil conflict. The future of these internally displaced persons is complicated by the same nationality and voting rights issues that prolong the conflict itself.

08.02.2007 "The Bush administration's repeated pledges of support for the reconstruction of Liberia must now translate into action," said a campaigner outside the U.S. Treasury Wednesday, calling for debt relief at next week's donors' conference.