Farmers are complaining about a lack of technical assistance and the poor quality of seeds they've planted this year in the Kaolack region, Senegal's groundnut-producing area, 200 kilometres south of the capital Dakar.

DUNCAN Mugabe will once again play Italian seed three Claudio Grassi in the second round of the Senegal F2 Futures tennis tournament in Dakar today, after overcoming American Janicije Karic in straight sets (6-2 6-0) in the first round on

Eliminated in the second round of the singles round of the International Tennis Federation( ITF) Futures Circuit in Senegal midweek, Uganda's lone ranger Duncan Mugabe kept the national flag flying high by reaching the doubles final.

They call her "Marie Nerica", after a new breed of rice.

In a surprising move, Charles Taylor today reinforced the truthfulness of his former vice president's testimony against him last year, but dismissed the evidence of a Liberian journalist as full of "lies" and "exaggeration."

Charles Taylor today accused the prosecution of "misleading the court" by introducing evidence that as Liberian president, Mr. Taylor acted to resolve conflicts between Sierra Leone's rebel commanders, appoint a chief rebel leader in his warring neighboring country, and then

For three years, children attending a private school for the blind in Sierra Leone's capital were forced onto the streets to beg for food. As well as being allowed to go hungry, their coughs, colds, cuts and bruises were also

A Sierra Leonean judge has taken over as the new President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst acts committed during the long and brutal civil

The decision not to transfer to Rwanda suspects and convicts from International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), has once again put the tribunal under spotlight as a fellow UN court sends in convicts to serve their sentences in the country.

United States and Sierra Leone government officials signed an agreement to reestablish a Peace Corps program in Sierra Leone after a 16 year absence. Glenn Fedzer, the Chargé d'Affaires for the U.S. Embassy in Freetown, and Sierra Leone's Minister of

Eight men found guilty by a United Nations-backed court of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone's brutal decade-long civil war have been transferred to Rwanda to serve their sentences.

Eight war crimes convicts of the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) were expected in the country last night to begin serving their prison sentences.

Charles Taylor did not have a "master-servant" relationship with Sierra Leone's notorious rebel commander Sam Bockarie ("Mosquito"), the former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague today.

African countries are not prepared to receive the malaria vaccine yet, a scientist said on Tuesday.

Some individuals and humanitarian organisations are working hard towards caring for abandoned children.

Section 340 of the Cameroon Penal Code prescribes a five to 10 year imprisonment term for attempted infanticide.

We all too often look at the question of abandoned children as an imported model; a phenomenon that is not only unusual in our known mores, but rather something exotic and, sometimes, an issue for academic discussion.

A conference on transfer of environmentally friendly technology from India took place last Monday.

You may have a different opinion but after paying your hard -earned CFA 10,000 for a hotel room, you discover the unexpected. No water and blurred TV images. The hotel proprietor is evasive and bites his lips as he unconvincingly

Bui CPDM militants ready to celebrate with PM.