West Africa

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• Commercial fish smoking is the "most pervasive" threat to mangrove forests in West Africa

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  An improved system for commercial fish smoking could reduce destruction of mangrove forests and generate human health benefits, report researchers writing in Tropical Conservation Science , an open-access journal published by mongabay.com.
  3 days ago

• The Night Before Christmas @ Citizen Kofi

  
  Jamati Online — Authority: 130
  WHAT HAPPENS ON THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS…24TH DECEMBER 2009. COME AND FIND OUT, WHETHER SANTA GOT DRUNK OR NOT.,,LOL AT THE PLUSH CITIZEN KOFI ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, OSU Dj’s —– Gucci Glasses The Lick Abrantie Alordia Big L Music Policy —————– RNB Hiphop hiplife bashment Old School Classics ...
  4 days ago

• Toward a Western Response to the Eastern and Southern Churches

  
  Hundie Jo [dot] Com — Authority: 127
  We, as the North-Western Church, must tread carefully as we awaken to the present, past, and future realities of the Eastern and Southern Churches.   This post is a collection of some helpful ideas to that end. In many ways have many things which these other Churches lack. Chief among these are education, history, ...
  6 days ago

• Folgers Christmas 2009

  
  The Sound of the Noising Machine — Authority: 114
  If you’ll recall from last year, I wrote a post about my favorite Christmas Commericals . One of my choices was everyone’s favorite, “Peter comes home” Folgers commercial. Well, while home over Thanksgiving this year, I happened to see an updated version of that commercial. Now, it’s kind of a ...
  6 days ago

• KEITHA FODEBA, Laicima, 1963

  
  Berlin Beatet Bestes — Authority: 123
  Keita Fodeba was born on January 19, 1921 in Siguiri (Republic of Guinea). After completing his primary education in Conakry , the capital of Guinea, he attended William Ponti institute in Dakar (Senegal). In 1944, he graduated with a teaching degree from Dakar. After teaching high school students a couple of years in ...
  6 days ago

• KEITHA FODEBA, Arissa, 1963

  
  Berlin Beatet Bestes — Authority: 123
  Here´s the second EP by Keita Fodeba and his African ensemble issued by the Czechoslovak label Supraphon . Arissa is a song in praise of a wrestler from the Diala tribe. KEITHA FODEBA, Arissa, 1963 Posted in 60`s, Guinea, World Tagged: West-Africa
  6 days ago

• I.K.DAIRO & HIS BLUE BOYS, Yekeyeke, 1962

  
  Berlin Beatet Bestes — Authority: 123
  I.K.Dairo & his Blue Boys were one the innovators of Nigerian JuJu music. I.K.Dairio played a amplified accordion and was the first high profile musician to use this instrument in JuJu songs. I.K.DAIRO & HIS BLUE BOYS, Yekeyeke, 1962 I.K.DAIRO & HIS BLUE BOYS, Oyewuyewu, 1962 Posted in ...
  6 days ago

• More Thoughts On the Relation Between Islam, Blackamericans, and Bebop

  
  The Manrilla Blog | Exploring Islam In America Through the Social Sciences — Authority: 120
  The following is s short excerpt from The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective, by Ingrid Tolia Monson. Monson’s book provides some further insight on the nature of the relation and attraction that Islam held for Blackamerican jazz musicians as well as Blackamericans as whole who embraced Islam.Art Blakey’s ...
  6 days ago

• AIDS Crisis in Africa: What Compassion Ghana Is Doing About It

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 468
  Compassion Ghana is intensifying its fight against the spread of HIV and AIDS with Compassion’s AIDS Initiative . Among the many activities aimed at achieving this objective is education. Florence Sena Amponsah is a Partnership Facilitator for 12 Compassion-assisted child development centers. She has been with ...
  6 days ago

• Big Dreams Entertainment Introduces Maino to West Africa

  
  Maino — Authority: 120
  Big Dreams Entertainment will be hosting the “Bring It to Life” concert in Lagos Nigeria, featuring special guests Maino, Ron Browz, MI, Kel & more! The event will be taking place on the 5th of December at Jades Palace (Club Valor) in Lagos Nigeria. Big Dreams Entertainment has set out to positively impact the ...
  1 week ago

• AIDS Crisis in Africa: Living HIV-Positive

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 468
  My name is Azalea*. I live with my daughter. She is 10, in grade four and is second in her class. So, we are two people in the family. My husband passed away several years ago after a short disease. He was suffering from a liver problem. We eat rice, millet pastry and beans. As we are only two, I cook once a day. ...
  1 week ago

• A new war in Africa – part 2

  
  Global Dashboard — Authority: 552
  The UN is pessimistic about the situation in Guinea. In Tambacounda last night, in the south-eastern wastes of Senegal, I met a World Food Programme employee from Dakar. Like everyone else in this one-horse town, he was on his way somewhere else, in this case to Kedougou, near the border with Guinea. He is going to ...
  1 week ago

• My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana

  
  Oluniyi David Ajao — Authority: 121
  Glo Mobile is very likely to be launched in Ghana before the end of this year 2009. Having shifted their launch date severally, a launch in December 2009 seems imminent.Glo Mobile’s entry into...
  1 week ago

• My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana

  
  Mobile Africa — Authority: 107
  Glo Mobile is very likely to be launched in Ghana before the end of this year 2009. Having shifted their launch date severally, a launch in December 2009 seems imminent. Glo Mobile is set to launch in Ghana soon Glo Mobile’s entry into Ghana comes at a time when Ghana’s mobile communications industry appears ...
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• New stage to prevent yellow fever vaccination from next week in 13 countries in West Africa begins

  
  ?????? ???? ?????? — Authority: 149
  New stage to prevent yellow fever vaccination from next week in 13 countries in West Africa begins.Vaccinating people against disease in Africa from yellow fever begins next week.ARGENTINA-BRAZIL-YELLOW FEVERWorld Health Organization (WHO) next Monday about 12 million vaccinations against yellow fever African ...
  1 week ago

• How to add more TV & Radio channels to your Multi TV decoder

  
  Oluniyi David Ajao — Authority: 121
  Before reading, I assume you already have a Multi TV subscription or intend to do so and that you have read my earlier blog posts on Multi TV. Else, you should read Multi TV Ghana, a new free digital...
  2 weeks ago

• Germans in Namibia

  
  Pension Sprachschule Maria Shipley — Authority: 126
  I admit, I must have missed a few more history lessons in my time. Not only was Namibia far away during my school years in the 60s and 70s, but the country was also called German South-West Africa until it officially gained independence in 1990 from South-Africa. Brief history from Worldatlas : South Africa ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ghana warning over church divisions: CEN 11.13.09 p 7.

  
  Conger — Authority: 426
    The Anglican Church in Ghana is losing members to the Catholic and independent churches due to the Communion’s divisions over gay bishops and blessings, the House of Bishops of the Church of the Province of West Africa learned last week. In a meeting following the consecration of the new Bishop of Sunyani ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gambian Minister of Finance Addresses Sub Regional Conference on Money Laundering

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  The Gambian minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Abdou Colley, has informed a sub-regional conference in Banjul that the Gambia Government has set up a unit at the Central Bank of the Gambia to monitor suspicious financial transactions with a view to combating money laundering in The Gambia. The two-day ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arab Monetary Fund Grants $47m Loan to Mauritania

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) has granted to Mauritania a loan for $47 million designed to restructure the country’s financial sector. The loan will help conduct urgent structural reforms of the Mauritanian public finance sector through the devolution via transfer scheduling to departments, the creation of financial ...
  2 weeks ago

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