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ECONOMY-SENEGAL: 'Only The Rich Get Loans' By Koffigan E. Adigbli DAKAR - Despite the financial sector boom in Senegal, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), which represent over 90 percent of the industrial fabric of the country, struggle to access funding for their development, their representatives claim. MORE >>
WEST AFRICA: Stopping the Polio Virus By Brahima Ouédraogo OUAGADOUGOU - The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners hope to eliminate the circulation of the polio virus in West Africa as soon as June by launching the first round of national synchronised immunisation days against the debilitating disease. MORE >>
EDUCATION-SIERRA LEONE: Government Ignores Demands for Additional Teachers By Lansana Fofana FREETOWN - Ismail Conteh has been teaching for the past year-and-a-half at a primary school in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown – without receiving a single cent. He is one of hundreds of teachers recruited by schools to match the ever-growing number of pupils. MORE >>
POLITICS-NIGERIA : In the Shadows of Men: Women’s Political Marginalisation By Mustapha Muhammad KANO - Ten years after Nigeria returned to civil rule women still play second fiddle in the male-dominated politics of Africa’s most populous nation, women politicians and activists say. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON: Are Women the Magic Bullet for "Electoral Apathy"? By Mohamadou Houmfa YAOUNDE - A support network for women's political participation, is challenging head-on what it calls "electoral apathy", after noting a growing trend in electoral abstention. MORE >>
HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV By Marshall Patsanza JOHANNESBURG - A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus. MORE >>
POLITICS-NIGER: First Steps Towards the Restoration of Democracy? By Ousseini Issa* NIAMEY - As its promised transition to democratic rule begins, the military junta that overthrew Nigerien president Mamadou Tandja on February 18 has named a former information minister, Mahamadou Danda, as the new prime minister while retaining legislative and executive powers for itself. MORE >>
COTE D'IVOIRE: Crisis Within a Crisis Delays Elections Again By Fulgence Zamblé* ABIDJAN - A week after President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the government and the electoral commission, thousands marched in the city of Bouaké, damaging cars and shops. There have been almost daily demonstrations in cities across the country as Côte d'Ivoire's political crisis deepens. MORE >>
POLITICS-TOGO: First Female Presidential Candidate By Noël Kokou Tadégnon* LOME - Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson, head of the opposition Democratic Convention of African Peoples party, is Togo's first female presidential candidate. But she has withdrawn from the electoral process. MORE >>
COTE D'IVOIRE: Policy Changes Revive Poultry Industry By Fulgence Zamblé ABATTA, Côte d'Ivoire - Ivorian poultry producers are enjoying strong growth thanks to the imposition of a tax on imports of poultry products from the European Union and South America. MORE >>
GHANA: Constitution Under the Knife By Osabutey Anny ACCRA - After 18 years of successful multi-party democracy, Ghanaians are bracing themselves to review the Fourth Republican Constitution. MORE >>
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