Editor’s note: This is a transcript of a BBC World Service Trust report: The legal team of Charles Taylor says Liberian journalist Hassan Bility(photo) (...)
The Defense Team of indicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor has told the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone that Liberian journalist Hassan (...)
Editor’s note: This is the first report by Emmanuel Turay, our new East Africa Bureau Chief based in Nairobi, Kenya. Emmanuel has worked as a journalist (...)
Opposition leader John Atta Mills won Ghana’s presidency, defeating his rival in the closest race in the West African country’s history, election officials (...)
Guinea’s new junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has appointed, last Monday morning, an international banker, Mr. Kabinet Komara(photo), as the (...)
The new military leader in Guinea, captain Moussa Dadis Camara(photo), already described by the Guinean media as the country’s own "Jerry Rawlings" seems to (...)
In what appears to be a coup, a group calling itself the National Council for Democracy has announced that Guinea’s constitution and parliament have been (...)
PRESS RELEASE Immediate: Dec, 12, 2008 Conflict diamond scheme must suspend Zimbabwe Members of the Kimberley Process (KP) Civil Society (...)
By Bai-Bai Sesay reporting from Bamako, Mali. In order to strengthen and improve the capacity of ministries of health to provide leadership, the (...)
Massive crowds have flocked to a memorial service in Johannesburg, South Africa, for legendary singer Miriam Makeba. The woman known as "Mama Africa" (...)
Miriam Makeba, the South African singer known to fans worldwide as "Mama Africa" who became an international symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle, died (...)
Commentary By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, Ottawa. Politics can be a complicated matter. It doesn’t matter whether in the advanced democracies (...)
