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]
With an estimated eight million firearms in the region, West Africa is struggling to survive ongoing conflicts in which small arms play a central and destabilizing role. It [...] [...more]
The West Africa Early Warning and Early Response Network (WARN) is an integral part of the West Africa Preventive Peacebuilding Program of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP). Through its WARN Program, WANEP is setting the stage for a civil society-based early warning and response network in Africa [...] [...more]
West Africa is becoming a new transit point for drugs from South America on their way to European markets, Dulue Mbachu reports from Benin for ISN Security Watch. By Dulue Mbachu in Cotonou, Benin for ISN Security Watch (28/02/08) Centuries after ships sailed with slaves from the Gulf of Guinea to South America as part of a [...] [...more]
