As everyone knows, news from China is not really being broadcasted around the world in real time.
From a direct source from Beijing I found out something rather…surprising. Since the Beijing Olympic Games are about to start, the local government decided to organize police raids to arrest the drug dealers selling cocaine and heroin in [...]

U.N. Human Rights Chief, Louise Arbour, says she is pleased former Chadian president Hissene Habre will finally face justice for human rights violations committed during his eight-year rule. She says the latest change to Senegal’s constitution now makes it possible for courts in the country to try Habre. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from the [...]

There are some 10,000 child beggars out on the streets of Dakar, Senegal. These are mostly children from poor families left in the care of Koranic teachers (Marabouts), who often abuse them physically and mentally. During the day, these children are made to roam the streets of Dakar, begging for food for their religious teachers.
As [...]

“Grand claims are my comfort. West African politics my balm”, is the opener on Africa Flak’s post titled “Peace through Strength: A new path for Guinea?“. Excerpts:

For the first time in recent history, we can safely attest that West Africa is home to no rogue states or outlandish bully governments. Sierra Leone and Liberia have [...]

TradeNet is an online portal set up for traders and producers to “access prices for specific commodities and markets throughout West Africa”. The portal also permits SMS messaging ; users can receive alerts on prices and commodities and access “market conditions” via their cellphones.
TradeNet is conceived under the MISTOWA project which aims to increase [...]

A delightful mixture of urban sounds with traditional west African roots, meet the Senegalese hip hop princes Gokhi-Bi System.

Afromusing the Kenyan blog, showcases a “top down” execution of a rural electrification project in Senegal. The Japanese/ Spanish government-funded project is “an ambitious rural electrification project” that that involved setting and using Photo voltaic systems to power a remote rural area.
“It becomes clear quite quickly that the development model that this project was [...]