Full Coverage: West Africa

28.09.2007 The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) recently declared war on the Nigerian government and oil companies, demanding that local communities see benefits from the billions of dollars of oil removed from the region.

26.09.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (OneWorld) - International donors' apathy towards African flood victims is worrying numerous UN agencies involved in humanitarian relief operations.

21.09.2007 On this year's International Day of Peace the majority of news streams in from Africa, and it is not all bad.

21.09.2007 Mainstreet Technologies threw its hat in the ring this week to be the first to complete an African west coast fibre project to compete with SAT3. The cable will connect 12 countries, some already connected to SAT3, others not. Russell Southwood spoke to the project’s CEO Funke Opeke and discovered how it intends to win the race to complete.

18.09.2007 Benefiting from the current government’s failure to deliver key social services, Ernest Bai Koroma was elected president by Sierra Leoneans last week, despite the incumbent entering the race as the favorite.

14.09.2007 Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Thailand are currently gathering outside the UN headquarters in New York to demand greater attention be paid to global hunger. Through a regularly updated blog, the campaigners are sharing behind-the-scenes action, video feeds, concert footage, and more.

12.09.2007 Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira has been urged to stop official harassment of journalists reporting on drug trafficking.
From IFEX

11.09.2007