by Marc Gabriel Amigone The Touareg people, nomads from the south of the Sahara in Northern Mali, West Africa, have a longstanding tradition of comi...
Reuters | 55 Mins Ago | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United States has "conveyed deep outrage" to the government of Guinea over a violent military crackdown on a protest rally la...
AP | By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 11.28.2009 | Home
PHOENIX (AP)-- A 9-year-old boy charged in the gang-rape of an 8-year-old Liberian girl sobbed in court Monday as his teacher testified that he rarely...
AFP | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
DAKAR (AFP) Flash floods have claimed 187 lives and affected 635,273 people in west Africa since the rainy season started in June, the UN Office for t...
AP | CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — More than 200 people, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays, were missing and feared dead Thursday, a d...
AFP | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that "significant" rainfall has lash...
Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
We ignore Africa at our peril. The African continent will only become more important in the future, and the whole world has a stake in what happens there.
AP | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
ACCRA, Ghana — Authorities in Ghana say they will deploy more than 10,000 police in this West African nation to boost security for President Bar...
Lola Olley | Posted 04.04.2009 | Entertainment
After the United States and India, West Africa has become the birthplace of the world's third largest film industry in terms of production.
AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
VIENNA — Cocaine smuggling to Europe is dramatically increasing through West Africa, posing a substantial threat to the stability of a region al...
GlobalPost.com | Tristan McConnell | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
ACCRA, Ghana -- West Africa is an unlikely center for the international cocaine trade. It is not a producer of the drug nor is it a consumer, as the...
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.24.2009 | World
Scroll down for video, photographs, country profile Update: 12/24 3 pm: The leader of the military group that claims to have staged a coup in Guine...
AP | ABOU BAKR and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 01.24.2009 | World
CONAKRY, Guinea — The leader of a coup in Guinea and several thousand soldiers paraded through the capital Wednesday as cheering crowds screamed...
Mark Leon Goldberg | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
At a public ceremony with President Clinton that included a number of Liberian politicians, the President announced a new Clinton Foundation sponsored anti-Malaria program for the country.
Modiba | Posted 12.18.2009 | World