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Change Agent Harnessing the sun’s power to make water flow
Small farmers in Benin in West Africa are using solar panels to power an innovative drip-irrigation system.
08/24/2011 12:42 pm -
Africa Monitor Nigeria clout to rise in post-Qaddafi Africa
Nigeria recognized Libya's rebels yesterday, a move criticized by South Africa as 'jumping the gun' ahead of the African Union's official decision on whether to recognize the fall of key AU donor, Muammar Qaddafi.
08/24/2011 11:30 am -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Nigeria sends two new satellites into space
Satellites launched by Nigeria will map the unplanned urban growth of the commercial capital, Lagos, and track the increasing oil spills in Nigeria's south as well as the desertification of its north.
08/23/2011 05:29 pm -
Change Agent Five trees you’ve never heard of that are helping to feed Africa
Trees such as black plum, marula, and dika provide fruits, leaves, and nuts that have nourished Africans for centuries.
08/18/2011 10:05 am -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Ivory Coast defaulting on loans, despite economic recovery
The scene of a chaotic power struggle earlier this year, Ivory Coast is now enjoying a recovery summer. But while it has the money to pay its debts, it is purposefully defaulting instead.
08/16/2011 03:53 pm -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: the makings of an iron ore boom?
Major multinational mining companies have been flocking to West Africa over the past few years, as iron ore's soaring price and Africa's cheap labor have offset concerns about regional instability.
08/16/2011 01:32 pm -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: New effort to boost regional trade by fighting delays, corruption
A pilot project in Ghana and Togo aims to make intra-African trade more efficient by educating shippers about customs procedures, required documentation, and traffic rules.
08/09/2011 03:19 pm -
US-funded coalition restores key West African slave-trade 'castle'
A group of historians, archaeologists, and concerned citizens is transforming Sierra Leone's Bunce Island castle into a museum exploring the transatlantic slave trade.
08/05/2011 12:35 pm -
Change Agent Stockpiling seeds today saves plants for the future
A quarter of the world's plant species may be headed toward extinction. Seed banks aim to prevent that.
08/04/2011 04:21 pm -
Piracy on the rise off West Africa's coast
West Africa has seen a sharp increase in the number of pirate attacks off its coast. The goal is not lucrative ransom payments, but fuel, which sells for a large sum on the black market.
08/04/2011 03:05 pm -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Ghana looks to fix its floundering fisheries
The World Bank plans to pump $53 million into Ghana's fisheries industry, which employs 2.2 million people, to reverse a decade-long downturn.
07/26/2011 03:58 pm -
Africa Monitor Guinea's president survives rocket attack, appeals for calm
While the identity and motives of the attackers are not clear, Tuesday's attack on the presidential palace comes at a fragile time for a country still reconciling after fractious December elections and a coup d'état.
07/20/2011 10:32 am -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Visits by Cameron, Merkel speak to Africa's growing economy
British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been touring the region – and oil-rich Nigeria in particular – to boost free trade and energy partnerships.
07/19/2011 01:25 pm -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Libya war boosting Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb?
Despite US training and support, West African nations have been unable to stamp out the terrorist group and the upheaval in Libya may be bolstering the group's arsenal.
07/05/2011 11:30 am -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Sierra Leone looks to 'smallholders' to solve agricultural woes
The West African nation plans to boost food production via a $400 million project to aid smallholders: subsistence growers farming on plots that average a mere four acres.
06/28/2011 12:10 pm -
Libya war cuts financial lifeline for Ghana
Thousands of Ghanaian migrant workers have fled the fighting, leaving them without jobs and straining Ghana's remittance-dependent economy.
06/24/2011 04:52 pm -
Senegal's president chips away at country's democratic record
President Abdoulaye Wade's attempt to alter the Constitution highlights Senegal's decline as a model of democracy in West Africa.
06/24/2011 03:36 pm -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Heroin, cocaine traffickers find more buyers at home
European consumption of South America’s cocaine doubled in the decade. Much of that trade comes through Africa, leaving a trail of domestic users.
06/21/2011 05:29 pm -
The Monitor's View Outsourcing democracy promotion
Turkey, after seeing atrocities in Syria, joins a club of other regional, democratic powers like Brazil and Indonesia helping their neighbors.
06/16/2011 01:17 pm -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Liberia aims to tap riches, wean itself off aid by 2021
After guiding Liberia to stability after years of civil war, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf hopes to take advantage of the country's natural resources to transform it into a middle-income nation.
06/14/2011 01:55 pm -
Africa Monitor Is Nigeria's Boko Haram a Wahhabi group?
The founder of Boko Haram could be labeled a Wahhabi for his opposition to secular governance, Western education, and other Islamic interpretations – but so could other Wahhabis in the country.
06/09/2011 01:30 pm -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Why Indian firms are bidding to buy up Nigeria's decrepit electrical grid
More than 200 companies – including India's Tata Group, New Jersey's Honeywell Energy, and Nigerian conglomerate Dangote Group – have signed up to own a rusty piece of Nigeria's grid.
06/07/2011 05:05 pm -
Africa Monitor Is Compaore's reign in Burkina Faso coming to an end?
Burkina Faso's President Compaore is seeing new protests against his regime in Western Africa that may finally be sweeping him out of power.
06/01/2011 01:44 pm -
Africa Monitor West Africa Rising: Can big infrastructure projects help Sierra Leone lure investors?
At an investment conference in the capital city of Freetown last week, President Ernest Bai Koroma described his hopes to build a massive new bridge, new airport, and new city in the sleepy village of Lungi.
05/31/2011 03:36 pm -
Who gets Qaddafi's cash? African nations crushed by wars he funded want some.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi trained and funded men - like Charles Taylor - whose reigns of terror in Liberia and Sierra Leone led to the death of hundreds of thousands of West Africans.
05/26/2011 12:07 pm
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