Africans across the world are increasingly attracted to the option of going to Africa to develop their career according to reports by Global Career Company. With over 100 global giants such as KPMG, Colgate Palmolive, SAB Miller and Chevron leading the charge for the region’s future business leaders, many executives are recognising the opportunities available to [...] [...more]
I have added another two new sections on the site. The first is Development - this site will deal with news specifically related to Development issues, the Millennium Development Goals and West Africa. The second is EMWAB - East Midlands West Africa Bureau - this site which I’m currently developing is specifically aimed at encouraging companies from [...] [...more]
By Will Ross BBC News, Ghana Take [...] [...more]
The challenge I set myself in doing EWA News was to deliberately set out to find “good news” about West Africa. I could easily fill this site with posts from many sources all of which tell negative aspects of the region. Personally, I have always had the ‘audacity of hope’ and please don’t think I’m [...] [...more]
I was researching online for television stations located in or covering West Africa and came across a UK Government supported website called Teachers TV. It provides resource videos for teachers covering a wide range of subjects and has several good films about Africa. The video described here is fantastic viewing and I recommend you take [...] [...more]
The BBC’s Focus On Africa magazine talks to three policemen in three countries about their lives. Burkina Faso: Pierre Kazoni reports for duty on the busy streets of Ouagadougou with Burkinabe police officer Adelaide Valea. At 0530 Valea and I go to Ouagadougou Central Police Station’s parade ground - a vast compound where more than 200 dusty [...] [...more]
Geldof has spent much of the last 25 years stressing to world leaders the importance of Africa. “It is the only continent yet to be built,” he writes. “It will be here that some of the great politics of our century will play themselves out.” Click for details: Sir Bob Geldof [...more]
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APA-Banjul (The Gambia) A three-day sub-regional workshop on the rural finance challenges facing Africa was opened in Banjul on Monday by the Central Bank of the Gambia governor Momodou Bamba Saho. Saho told the participants drawn from the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria, that it was important to discuss and share experiences about “new initiatives [...] [...more]
ABIDJAN, 31 March 2008 (IRIN) At the height of the demonstration, before riot police started firing tear gas, IRIN saw around 1,500 protestors chanting “we are hungry” and “life is too expensive, you are going to kill us.” “A kilo of beef has increased from 700 CFA (US$1.68) to 900 CFA (US$2.16) in just three days,” one [...] [...more]
