West Africa general news

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Madina Toure

December 9, 2015

By Andrew Manners, December 8, 2015 Despite contributing only a fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emiss...

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Madina Toure

December 8, 2015

Sun Dec 6, 2015 2:29pm GMT By Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Authorities in Burkina Faso have charged a general who led...

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Dr. Dennie Beach

October 28, 2015

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Alassane Ouattara has been re-elected to a second term as the president of Ivory Coast, in the first peaceful pr...

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Dr. Dennie Beach

August 7, 2015

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork When Evans Appiah moved to the Bronx from Ghana at age 8, he was teased for his accent. As a wa...

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Dr. Dennie Beach

March 26, 2015

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Journalist and author Howard W. French and more than 150 other writers and professors sent a le...

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Dr. Dennie Beach

December 26, 2014

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A new method for making chemicals that lure tsetse flies to traps has been developed. It uses a...

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Dr. Dennie Beach

September 2, 2014

Threatened with arrest in 2009, Lamin F. Bojang fled Gambia after publicly contradicting its president’s claims that he could...