Africa, World

COTONOU Friday, October 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Faced with rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused in part by coastal sand mining, carting away of...

COTONOU Wednesday, October 01, 2008 (IRIN) - Health officials say air pollution in Benin’s economic capital, Cotonou, is an often-overlooked,...

BAMAKO Friday, August 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Implementers of an international project to help endangered elephants in Mali want to prove that by doing so,...

GAO Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Abdoulaye, a Malian, spent more than US$500 to try to reach Spain across the Sahara, but he was caught by the...

GAO Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Abdoulaye (not his real name), 27, tried to illegally migrate from Mali to Spain a few months ago, but he was...

COTONOU Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - One year after the country’s top anti-drug officials were sacked for alleged corruption, Benin’s new...

BAMAKO Tuesday, October 07, 2008 (IRIN) - The European Union (EU) has opened its first multi-million dollar immigration centre in West Africa, but...

BAMAKO Thursday, October 02, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 300 women are victims of sexual violence every year in Bamako, according to local police records,...

BAMAKO Monday, September 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Analysts say despite the government's efforts to secure the north through its clampdown of a militia...

BAMAKO Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Malian civil society organisations say the 09 September release of 44 military prisoners by the rebel...