December 20, 2002
Africa: White House Prepares Multi-Nation Presidential Tour to Africa
President George Bush will make a six-day trip to Africa in January, his first visit to the continent as President of the United States. Read more »
December 16, 2002
West Africa: French Beef Up Military Mandate As West Africans Schedule Summit On Ivorian Crisis
West African leaders convened another crisis summit, Monday, to try to rescue peace talks on the three month conflict in Cote d'Ivoire, as the former colonial power, France,… Read more »
December 10, 2002
West Africa: Liberia's President Taylor is Destabilising Region, Say Opposition Leaders
The government of Liberia is at "the epicenter of a system of conflict," says Amos Sawyer, formerly president in the interim government of Liberia, 1990-1994. He says the West… Read more »
December 05, 2002
Guinea: "Make Everyone a Part of it": A Winning Strategy for Education in Guinea
Aicha Bah Diallo is dynamic, determined and passionate. Her passion is education. She comes from Guinea-Conakry and is currently a senior official at the United Nations… Read more »
December 03, 2002
Cote d'Ivoire: Chaotic Conflict Deepens As Government Troops Fight To Recover Lost Territory In Ivory Coast
What West African leaders feared most is happening. The complex and chaotic conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has become more confused and spilled over its borders, potentially drawing in… Read more »
Burkina Faso: HIV/Aids' Campaigner Brings New Hope To Sufferers
Mamadou Sawadogo, a nurse from Burkina Faso, is a determined and cheerful optimist. He is also HIV-positive. Sawadogo, 34, became infected with the virus after a needle-stick… Read more »
November 28, 2002
Cote d'Ivoire: More War Talk As New Anti-Government Group Surfaces In Ivory Coast
Fresh developments in the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire were reported on Thursday, with the appearance of a second group opposed to the government of President Laurent Gbagbo. Read more »
November 26, 2002
West Africa: Ghana Denies Rebel Allegations Of Military Support To Ivorian Government
A leading Ivorian rebel spokesman has accused the government of Ghana of providing military support to the Cote d'Ivoire authorities and of allowing its territory, at the northwest… Read more »
November 25, 2002
Cote d'Ivoire: Ghana Denies Military Backing For Government Fight Against Rebels In Ivory Coast
Rebels of the Patriotic Movement of Cote d'Ivoire (MPCI) Sunday, accused neighbouring Ghana of allowing its territory to be used by troops loyal to Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo… Read more »
November 22, 2002
Nigeria: Newspaper Contrition Fails to Quell Nigeria Violence
Violence in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna continued sporadically Friday, triggered by a furious reaction of Muslims to the suggestion in a leading national newspaper that… Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Ivory Coast New Peace Plan, UN Launches Multimillion Dollar Aid Appeal
West African mediators, trying to broker a peace deal between the Cote d'Ivoire government and rebels, handed both delegations in nearby Togo a fresh draft peace plan Thursday to… Read more »
November 21, 2002
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone's Special Court: Will it Hinder or Help?
Post-war Sierra Leone is being used as a kind of guinea-pig. Following in South Africa's footsteps it will have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission which is intended to allow the… Read more »
November 19, 2002
Sierra Leone: The Killing House of Kailahun
Earlier this year in Sierra Leone, photojournalist Ben Phillips came across a building which had all too obviously been the site of gross violence and cruelty during the years of… Read more »
Nigeria: Nigerian Publisher Says Attack on Paper Spotlights Governance Issues
Since Friday's bombing of the National Pilot weekly newspaper in Ilorin, capital of Nigeria's northern Kwara state, the governor and the paper's publisher have traded allegations… Read more »
November 11, 2002
Cote d'Ivoire: Ivory Coast Peace Talks on Hold as Rebels Consult
Ivorian rebel representatives left the Togolese capital, Lome, to return to their stronghold in Cote dIvoire's central city of Bouake , to consult their colleagues and supporters… Read more »
November 07, 2002
West Africa: West African Army Chiefs Agree Buffer Force for Ivory Coast
West African defence chiefs meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, have agreed the deployment of a regional peace-keeping force in Cote d'Ivoire. Read more »
November 05, 2002
Liberia: Embargo on Taylor Must Continue, Says UN Panel
A UN panel of experts established to probe the supply of weapons that fuels the Liberian conflict has just submitted its latest report to the UN Security Council in New York. Read more »
October 30, 2002
West Africa: 'Here to Listen, to See and to Learn': Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah Takes Up New Post
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah is an international diplomat whose career to date has involved a diversity of assignments. Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Two Sides Wide Apart as Ivory Coast Peace Talks Begin
The Cote dIvoire rebel delegation arrived first in the Togolese capital Lome, Sunday, and settled into one of the upper floors of the citys once classiest hotel. President… Read more »
October 27, 2002
Cote d'Ivoire: Ecowas Agrees to Send 2000 Peacekeepers to Ivory Coast
The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) agreed Saturday night to send a 2,000-strong military force, headed by Senegal, to monitor the ceasefire in Cote dIvoire. Read more »
October 25, 2002
Nigeria: A Tribute to Major General Joseph Garba
A Memorial Tribute to Major General Joseph Nanven Garba takes place on Monday, October 28, 2002, 12-1pm in the Dag Hammerskjold Library, United Nations, at which the principal… Read more »
October 24, 2002
Cote d'Ivoire: Mbeki says Ivory Coast Must Deal With Underlying Tensions
South African President Thabo Mbeki, the current chairman of the African Union (AU), was among the leaders who gathered in Cote dIvoires economic capital, Abidjan, Wednesday, for… Read more »
West Africa: Ecowas Chief Calls for 'Sacrifice and Compromise' in Ivory Coast
The president of Togo, Gnassingbe Eyadema, has been designated the coordinator for the contact group of regional leaders, created by the Economic Community of West African States… Read more »
October 23, 2002
Cote d'Ivoire: West African and AU leaders scheduled for Ivory Coast talks
West African heads of state, and the leader of the African Union (AU), have begun preliminary talks, Wednesday, aimed at ending a five week rebellion, which has left hundreds of… Read more »
October 22, 2002
West Africa: Arbitrary Killing of Muslims in Ivory Coast's Cocoa Capital
Reports from Daloa, Cote dIvoires western cocoa heartland, say men in military uniform have been carrying out arbitrary killings of civilians in the town, since it was recaptured… Read more »
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