West Africa general news
09
Dec
(Global Risk Insights) Africa seeks more equitable deal at UN Climate Summit
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Madina Toure
By Andrew Manners, December 8, 2015
Despite contributing only a fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, Africa is being hi...
07
Dec
(Reuters Africa) Burkina charges former coup leader over murder of Sankara
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Sun Dec 6, 2015 2:29pm GMT
By Nadoun Coulibaly
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Authorities in Burkina Faso have charged a general who led...
28
Oct
(NYT): Africa: Alassane Ouattara Is Re-elected President of Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Alassane Ouattara has been re-elected to a second term as the president of Ivory Coast, in the first peaceful pr...
07
Aug
(NYT) Hiplife, a Sound Imported From Ghana, Arrives on a New York Stage
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When Evans Appiah moved to the Bronx from Ghana at age 8, he was teased for his accent. As a wa...
26
Mar
’60 Minutes’ under fire for Africa coverage
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Journalist and author Howard W. French and more than 150 other writers and professors sent a le...
26
Dec
Africa: Cashew Nut By-Product May Help Cut Sleeping Sickness
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A new method for making chemicals that lure tsetse flies to traps has been developed. It uses a...
02
Sep
Influx of African Immigrants Shifting National and New York Demographics
Threatened with arrest in 2009, Lamin F. Bojang fled Gambia after publicly contradicting its president’s claims that he could...