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Ouagadougou correspondent: no Arab spring in Burkina Faso either

('ManxMan',) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:30:00 -0000

Whilst Burkina Faso offered Muammar Gaddafi asylum on 25 August, they recognised the national transitional council in early September. August also saw the jailing of three policemen for their part in the death of student Justin Zongo in custody in February. Yet why did the country's mutinies not lead to the same dramatic changes as we are now seeing in Libya?

In Senegal, farmers versus Europe

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Small-time Senegalese producers are speaking out against the Economic Partership Agreements (EPAs) negotiated on 8 and 9 December at Lisbon. For them, the battle against famine means being opposed to market liberalisation

Water for Benin

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0000

In line with World Water Week, Hamburg has been observing 2007's 'Days of Water' since 22 August. A vitally serious issue is at the core of this series of remarkable events

How about going back to your country

('Hanna Sankowska',) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:00:00 -0000

The May 2007 creation of a French ministry of immigration and national identity led by Brice Hortefeux ponders paying immigrants to go back to where they came from. Multiculturalism – a European asset?

Sandra Camps: Barcelona's journalist as Africa's social worker

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0000

Her reports on dwarfism and the mass tide of immigrants to the Canaries are gracing German screens - the Catalan journalist gives a voice to those without