Economic Community of West African States elects Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara as chairman
Economic Community of West Africa States summit also examining reform in Guinea-Bissau, upcoming elections in member states
The Liberian Refugee Agency is urging refugees to take advantage of on-going voluntary repatriation program
Group to discuss regional security and politics among its 15 West African member states
Better regulation proposed to protect human health from mounting electronic waste
A team of 25 medical personnel from Children’s Surgery International perform 99 free surgeries on Liberian children in 10 days
Unique venture aims to help albino community achieve equality in society
UN agency says more than $67 million to address needs of over one million malnourished children
Reporters locked out of press center in Lagos, accused of posing national security threat
Consequences of last year’s scant rains, exceptionally poor harvest now being felt in northern Senegal
Opposition continues pressing for President Abdoulaye Wade, 85, to abandon plans to run for third term on February 26
Teargas was fired, water cannons used, as thousands of people demonstrate in central Dakar’s Place de L’Obelisque
Tribal elders asked women, children living in the north to travel south to minimize their risk, while the men stay to tend to businesses
Senegal’s Constitutional Court confirms earlier ruling that 85-year-old incumbent Wade can stand for election in the presidential vote
Roads remain closed to stem violence; many Senegalese are saying enough is enough
Dakar is on red alert for another night of violence as Constitutional Court considers appeals of rejected presidential candidates
Candidates gear up to face off with country's aging but determined president, Abdoulaye Wade
With poor press freedom and human rights violations, some are asking can E. Guinea justify putting on a show for the world's media?
Many feel President Goodluck Jonathan's solution is merely cosmetic
President Jonathan says fuel prices will drop to 60 cents per liter - a reduction of about 35 percent
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