For the first time in over a decade remittances to sub-Saharan Africa are set to fall in 2009, increasing people’s vulnerability to poverty,...

Health providers – frequently the first professional a trafficking victim consults for help – are often thrust into the fight against organised crime...

West Africa’s rainy season is coming to a close, but the yearly cholera outbreak continues to claim lives throughout the region. In the hardest-hit...

Six months after President Abdoulaye Wade launched his agricultural growth initiative, small-scale farmers had mixed reviews even as the President on...

Some of the biggest development and humanitarian NGOs are laying off staff or revising programmes for 2009 as their income streams flatten because of...

An international NGO is using cartoons to spell out to African soldiers the rights and wrongs of how to treat a child. Save the Children Sweden...

Despite growing for centuries in some of the driest, toughest agricultural zones of West Africa, the fonio cereal has been neglected by most...

The 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) says sub-Saharan African countries have the highest level of hunger in the world, with Niger, Sierra Leone and...

Investing in solar energy could bring electricity to millions of Senegalese, significantly reduce electricity bills in the long term, and attract...

For years, farmers in one of Senegal’s most mango-rich zones, Keur Mbir Ndao, 80km east of the capital, were losing more than half their harvests....