The launch of the country's first online mining database in West Africa comes with a promise to increase transparency and accountability in the country's rich natural resource ... Read more »
The Gola Rainforest remains a centre of contention as the local community plans to take their chief to court over a controversial 50-year land lease to a UK mining company. Read more »
The government of President Ernest Koroma is being pressed to investigate alleged corruption among officials said to have permitted illegal logging operations in exchange for ... Read more »
There is a new oil rush off the coast of West Africa despite concern for oil regulation, transparency and governance, say watchdog groups. Read more »
Some 27,000 Sierra Leoneans are estimated to have been disabled or have had one or more of their limbs amputated during the 1991-2002 civil war. Read more »
The South African Football Association has officially filed a protest letter to the Confederation of African Football following the controversial 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals. Read more »
After at first celebrating their apparent success in reaching the Cup of Nations finals, South Africa was hit with the news that the rules were against them. Read more »
South African soccer fans have been promised that they will not experience another "black-out" when Bafana Bafana take on Sierra Leone in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier ... Read more »
West Africa leaders have requested the military assistance of the UN and ECOWAS to improve monitoring of the Liberia-Ivory Coast border, which they say has been breached by ... Read more »
African health ministries recently discussed how country leadership and country-led development have improved health outcomes in their countries at the International Conference on ... Read more »
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