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Category: West Africa

West Africa has been defined as including the 18 countries Benin, Burkina Faso, the island of Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, the island of Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe and Togo.

Gambia: Release peaceful protestors and community members arbitrarily detained

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Gambian authorities must release peaceful protesters and community members, including a man in his 70s, who were arbitrarily arrested and detained last week, said Amnesty International today. At least 40 people were arrested by police during and after a largely peaceful protest by young people and community members in the town of Kartong on Sunday 22 November 2015. The protest,... Read More

Ford Begins Assembling Ranger Trucks In Nigeria

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LAGOS, Nigeria, 17 November 2015 - As part of its ambitious expansion in Africa, Ford Motor Company assembled the first Ford Ranger in Nigeria this week. The first Ranger to come off the assembly line was built in an existing facility with Ford's Nigerian partners Coscharis. Ford announced it would produce Ranger trucks in Nigeria in August.   "The facility... Read More

EXCLUSIVE! How Sierra Leone Fought Ebola With TB Joshua’s ‘Anointing Water’

Leo Igwe
When Nigerian ‘Prophet’ T.B. Joshua controversially claimed in August 2014 that his ‘Anointing Water’ had the ability to cure the deadly Ebola virus which had ravaged several West African countries, the declaration was met with both doubt and derision.  However, a prominent Sierra Leonean politician has sensationally claimed that the contentious arrival of 4,000 bottles of Joshua’s water to her... Read More

Gambia: Sharp deterioration of human rights in 21st year of President Jammeh’s rule

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The human rights situation in Gambia has deteriorated sharply during President Yahya Jammeh's 21st year in power, said Amnesty International on the anniversary of his 1994 coup d’état.  “The climate of fear which has blighted the lives of Gambians for more than two decades worsened over the last 12 months with journalists, people perceived to be gay or lesbian, and... Read More

Sierra Leone: Ebola regulations and other laws must not be used to curtail freedom of expression and assembly

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Sierra Leone should stop using emergency regulations brought in to combat Ebola as a pretext to restrict freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International said today. “Now that Ebola cases are reducing and schools have re-opened, the government should immediately review the State of Emergency provisions and ensure that only provisions strictly required to fight the Ebola epidemic remain... Read More

Boko Haram massacre: ‘I walked through five villages and each one was empty except for dead bodies’

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 Nigerians cram into a bus to flee a town in north-east Nigeria following Boko Haram attack on Baga. Photograph: Str/EPA Yusuf Sarkin does not remember much about the massacre that drove him from the town where he was born. The gunfire and the screaming and the frenzy of bodies trying to outrun bullets flying through the sandy streets of Baga… Read More

Boko Haram’s ‘deadliest massacre’ reportedly kills 2,000 in Nigeria

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Jan. 12, 2015 – A child, at rear, walks through the scene of an explosion in a mobile phone market in Potiskum, Nigeria. Two female suicide bombers targeted the busy marketplace on Sunday, killing 4. Amnesty International called Boko Haram’s recent attacks “the “deadliest massacre” in the history of the violent group, saying as many as 2,000 people have died.… Read More
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