Africa, World

KOINDU Wednesday, July 30, 2008 (IRIN) - John (12) and Mustapha (14) were orphaned during the war when their parents were killed in front of them....

BISSAU Saturday, November 15, 2008 (IRIN) - UN and other international observers say they are cautiously optimistic ahead of Guinea-Bissau’s...

DAKAR Friday, October 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Officials in Sierra Leone are drafting a new law that will tighten controls on non-profit organisations...

FREETOWN Tuesday, September 16, 2008 (IRIN) - More than 10,000 slum dwellers have been affected by an 11 September storm that tore down dozens of...

DAKAR Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Alcohol abuse in Senegal has reached “massive” levels but most addicts are not receiving the help they...

DAKAR Friday, October 31, 2008 (IRIN) - Six months after President Abdoulaye Wade launched his agricultural growth initiative, small-scale farmers...

ZIGUINCHOR Tuesday, October 14, 2008 (IRIN) - Mangroves, one of the world’s richest ecosystems, are declining in Casamance, southern Senegal, and...

DAKAR Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - In Senegal people with albinism are marginalised and find little support for coping with the daily...

THIES Wednesday, November 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Researchers have sold over 1,000 solar stoves to rural families in Senegal in a bid to prove that the...

Confusion reigns in Ford-Kenya, a once powerful party now reduced to a shell.Party unity is on the line as three top brass nurse presidential...