Open Society Initiative for West Africa (Dakar)
OSIWA envisions a freer, safer, more integrated, democratic and equitable West Africa - See more at: http://www.osiwa.org/#sthash.4FfhDuJ0.dpuf
Website: http://www.osiwa.org/
August 20
Africa: Money in Politics - A Threat to African Democracies
“If you political analysts, do not help us, political actors, to find a solution to the problem posed by the need for more and more enormous financial resources to make… Read more »
August 15
West Africa: Overcoming Stigma to Promote Inclusiveness of Drug Users in Senegal
Throughout several working class neighborhoods in Dakar you find large semi-finished houses that are occasionally equipped with running water and electricity. The rooms in these… Read more »
West Africa: Democracy in West Africa - Between fragile progress, hopes, and fears
“…I would like to tell my fellow presidents from other countries that power alternation are inevitable in Africa and in West Africa…”. This statement by… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Why Natural Resource Governance should take centre stage in Sierra Leone's 2018 Elections
In a country with less than 5% original forest cover remaining, it should be scandalous that logging still happens on a grand scale. But government has been decidedly indecisive. Read more »
Mali: 2018 Presidential Elections - A Step Towards the Consolidation of Peace in Mali?
A turning point that marked Mali’s return to a democracy following the 2012 crisis was the presidential elections held in July 28th, 2013. Five years later, the main… Read more »
August 03
West Africa: Money in Politics - a Threat to African Democracies
"If you political analysts, do not help us, political actors, to find a solution to the problem posed by the need for more and more enormous financial resources to make politics,… Read more »
July 24
Mali: 2018 Presidential elections: A step towards the consolidation of peace in Mali?
A turning point that marked Mali’s return to a democracy following the 2012 crisis was the presidential elections held in July 28th, 2013. Five years later, the main… Read more »
June 02
Africa: Open Society Foundations Announce Summer 2018 New Executives Fund Recipients
NEW YORK—Eight newly appointed leaders of nonprofit organizations, in countries ranging from the United States to Senegal, have been awarded New Executives Fund grants to… Read more »
March 01
Sierra Leone: Land, the Environment, and Elections - Why Natural Resource Governance Should Take Centre Stage in Sierra Leone's 2018 Elections
The ancient ford truck belched black smoke on the highway as it laboured with its heavy load towards Freetown. Chunks of rough-hewn tree trunks overflowed its wagon. A dirty, red… Read more »
November 21, 2017
West Africa: Echoes From Across the River
The wave of institutionalization of democracy through regular elections in Sub-Saharan Africa has intensified over the last two decades.[1] Read more »
November 20, 2017
Liberia: 'No Real Winners in Corruption' - Children's Book Adapted for Stage
In a recently released video of Gbagba: The Stage Play, a diminutive, eight-year-old Liberian child actor proclaims, “In gbagba or corruption, there are never any real… Read more »
November 17, 2017
Senegal: Building Community Support for Drug Users Using Mobile Cinemas
Waves of dialogue in West Africa on drug policy reform with the ultimate goal of decriminalizing drug use and possession for personal use have been making headway. Progress is… Read more »
November 08, 2017
Liberia: Nation's Season of Hope
Jay peered at me from the burglary proofed window of Lango Lippaye Public School. You could feel his excitement. It was a non-school day because of the elections. The adults were… Read more »
June 06, 2016
Ghana: 3rd West Africa Executive Course On Human Rights and Drug Policy [invitation to Apply]
The University of Ghana School of Law, in collaboration with the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program and Open Society Initiative for West Africa, is inviting applications from… Read more »
