West Africa

The current wave of cholera outbreaks which had begun several weeks ago in West Africa is still ongoing ( see map below).

It was not immediately clear how it reached west Africa, but experts said the priority was to contain it before it could spread any further.

He cites one study which showed that in west Africa malaria tends to spread faster in suburban neighbourhoods than in cities and slums.

The victims were all relatives who immigrated to the U. S. from West Africa.

We were in the heart of West Point, the slum of Monrovia, Liberia, and arguably the densest slum in all of West Africa.

FAO has predicted that the H5N1 strain might find its way into the Middle East, North Africa and East and West Africa, she said.

Ms. Mendes and I had just arrived here in West Africa to collaborate on a PBS documentary on some inspiring women around the world.

The Sahel would be turned into a desert by the soaring population of west Africa.

The bottom ten countries are all African countries, with Sierra Leone (in West Africa) at the bottom of the list.

Ward isn't just a mad chocolate fiend; he has also made a long-term bet that supply problems in West Africa will continue to push prices up.

A second tier, where between a fifth and a third lack adequate food, includes much of West Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Bolivia.

It turned out this gentleman was from Gambia, West Africa and was now visiting his children, having retired from a senior role in the UN.

With a head full of Rimbaud and a copy of "Ulysses" under his arm, he set off for west Africa in search of adventure.

A new study in West Africa shows how farm irrigation systems powered by the sun can produce more food and money for villagers.

In fact, for many West Africa watchers, Guinea's fall into chaos has only been a matter of time.

He was often accused of ruling with an iron fist and sponsoring rebellions all over west Africa.

As this practice becomes more widespread, many countries, mostly in West Africa, are being completely shut out of internationale-commerce.

Widespread reports on Friday also had placed the ship near the island nation off West Africa.

Harm Ploeger is the finance director for the West Africa branch of the British engineering and construction firm Costain.

Because the report is all to do with the dumping of waste in West Africa.

In West Africa, another part of the world where I spent a year, I heard of people eating primates.

A few weeks ago I chatted with a cab driver from Burkina Faso in West Africa about Bollywood films.

This form of AIDS is found in West Africa, but has not spread much beyond that part of the world.

Bamako, meaning "village of crocodiles, " is one of the most vibrant trade hubs in West Africa.

Decades ago, I visited a ministry center in West Africa and saw a little girl climb onto a truck that had a public address system.

Every $1 billion of pure cocaine trafficked through West Africa earns more than ten times as much when sold on the streets in Europe.

a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; one of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa.

The all-stock acquisition will give the company access to large new gold projects in West Africa.

They include a manufacturing group owned by Aliko Dangote, often reckoned to be west Africa's richest man, and four African banks.

Pirates have attacked an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa, killing a Ukrainian seaman, the commander of Benin's naval forces says.

This approach has been tested and proven in West Africa, where the United States conducts periodic short-term patrols.

In a recent study , researchers in West Africa have shown that spraying insecticide indoors can greatly reduce malaria transmission.

And the medicines for a cobra bite in the Philippines may not work for someone bitten by a similar snake in West Africa.

This paper is an overview of an IWC SIT conducted in March 2007 for a West Africa deep water field .

There is a seasonal risk of meningococcal disease in parts of West Africa, primarily during the dry season from December through June.

Years later on another trip, I stepped off the plane in West Africa, a more hardened traveler.

One of the most frequently used routes is from the North West Africa to the Spanish Canary Islands.

I am from Liberia in West Africa. am the only child of my parents and am studying law in the university before my parents past away.

The custom dates back centuries to slavery and is believed to have roots in West Africa.

The input parameters for this study were based upon a typical deepwater well in West Africa.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration has expanded active military operations into Yemen, Libya, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, and West Africa.

In West Africa, masks are used in masquerades that form part of religious ceremonies enacted to contact with spirits and ancestors.

The United Nations reports the number of people affected by torrential rains and floods in West Africa has increased dramatically.

Eleven people died when a twin-engine aircraft crashed Saturday into thick jungle near Congo's border with Cameroon in West Africa.

The Nobel Committee said she had "worked to enhance the influence of women in West Africa during and after war" .

Numerous swarms of locusts that have already devastated crops across West Africa may affect countries as far away as Pakistan.

Once again my name is Miss Marisa Johnson, My Nationality is Liberia in West Africa But I'm a British Citizen.

West Africa has not had a case since the first of May.

A flight from east Africa to west Africa typically used to require a tedious detour via Paris or London.

Though originally native to West Africa, it migrated to Jamaica in 1778 and is now the country's national fruit.

West Africa, East Africa, Latin America and the southern shore of the Mediterranean all need regional common agricultural policies.

Senegal is building a new airport outside Dakar to handle more flights to continue its emergence as a key entry point to West Africa.

The goods can only be sold in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa.

Researchers in West Africa have shown that spraying insecticide indoors can dramatically reduce malaria transmission.

In West Africa, rice accounts for a much larger share of food consumption than in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Earlier he was Executive Secretary for the African Groundnut Council and the West Africa Rice Development Association.

An underwater cable linking West Africa's computers to Europe's data centres is due to come ashore in South Africa.

She says recent American media reports about the rape and murder of a volunteer in West Africa don't scare her.

The long-nosed crocodile is shy and timid and because of this, the people of West Africa where it lives, sometimes catch it for food.

France sent one of its air force planes from west Africa.

He served as the director general of the West Africa Rice Development Association.

"Small-scale fisheries are woefully underreported for bycatch, " he notes, especially in the eastern Indian Ocean and off West Africa.

Six of the world's biggest mining and steel companies have converged on a mineral-rich corner of west Africa once beset by civil war.

Boko Haram's ideology is not widely supported in Nigeria; Islam in west Africa is overwhelmingly moderate.

from the West Africa were arrested by the police in Gambia yesterday evening.

Heroin is finding new routes to the consumer, for instance through West Africa to America, and via Pakistan and Central Asia to China.

Affected rivers include the Ganges in India, the Niger in West Africa, and the Colorado in the southwestern United States.

We are a general merchandise dealing on various children products (bicycle) in Nigeria and West Africa Subregion.

In the past we had people from all over the world, mainly from West-Africa and the Near East Region living with us.

HOWARD-YANA SHAPIRO: "There's a yield potential of maybe four thousand kilos, ten times what the average is in West Africa. "

French traders founded the city of St-Louis in 1659, and for nearlythree centuries it served as the capital of French West Africa.

But as the economic hub of west Africa, Nigeria has, inevitably, also become its drug-trafficking hub.

Meanwhile, a company called Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), which serves West Africa is helping small farmers.

West Africa seems a good base from which to serve Americans and Europeans with pre-prandial nibbles or beer-friendly fistfuls.

Mr. Ban just returned from a trip to Europe and West Africa where he says the gravity of the global food crisis dominated discussions.

He spent last summer living much like he will in the Peace Corps - in a rural village in West Africa, with no electricity or running water.

Shea butter -- now the stuff of drugstore moisturizers -- comes from the nut of the karite tree of West Africa.

The Chelsea squad and entourage recently went on a tour of somewhere hot in West Africa.

Take the three-cornered drug market that links cocaine growers in Latin America, traffickers in West Africa, and users in Europe.

From 2002-2006 he worked as an aid worker in West Africa, and over the next five years he will be traveling to every country in the world.

Monkeypox occurs primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.

Examples of English- based creoles are Jamaican Creole , Hawaiian Creole and Krio in Sierra Leone, West Africa .

contracting and Consultant company and among largest and main importer and distributor in Togo and also in West-Africa.

United Nations mining experts estimate that 10-20% of the thousands of mine workers in West Africa are children.

Syndicates smuggling ivory from West Africa to Southeast Asia are streamlined operations.

From 2002-2006 he worked as an aid worker in West Africa, and over the next five years he will be visiting every country in the world.

Huge subsidies depress the world price in cotton, taking income away from poor producers in West Africa and elsewhere.

In West Africa, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo have had outbreaks in 2007.

The second half of the paper discusses a deepwater appraisal well case example from offshore Nigeria, West Africa.

"Brazilians are well-received in these countries, " says a Brazilian diplomat serving in West Africa.

And every single one of them has been placed. And we're getting great reports back from corporate Ghana, corporate West Africa.

Bayesian Rainfall Variability Analysis in West Africa along Cross Sections in Space-Time Grid Boxes.

In West Africa there are a number of businesses trading on a large scale in palm products, coca and rubber.

What he does in west Africa and in Rwanda, he explains, is help with basic questions of government.

The miracle fruit, or sweet berries, is a very strange berry native to West Africa.

In September, the International Executive Service Corps paid for Abe Mirza to travel to West Africa.

Chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and more than half of those beans come from two countries in West Africa.

However, as a number of states in West Africa and elsewhere have discovered, this is not enough.

Once West Africa's breadbasket, Nigeria can no longer feed itself.

The Sundance team had traveled to West Africa as part of plans to expand its operations in the region.

Case in point: Ghana, in West Africa, where most of the northern half of the country lives without lights.

The hottest new zone for pirates is West Africa, whose oil-rich Gulf of Guinea has seen a spike in attacks this year.

FAO estimates that approximately US$12 million will be required to assist flood affected farming communities in East and West Africa.

The harvests in the Sahel region of West Africa have been severely damaged.

KAY WESTERFIELD: "As one business student in West Africa put it, 'English is a lifeline. '"

In partnership with private investors, he is also responsible for Tinapa, the largest retail and business development in west Africa.

Meanwhile Africa's own film festival, Fespaco, got under way this week in Burkina Faso, in west Africa.

The West Africa regional group in Ecowas has told the BBC it's closely following developments in Niger.

In 2006 36% of the cocaine carriers caught in one network of European airports had come from west Africa.

Being a journalist is hazardous stuff when done correctly, especially in West Africa.

Lassa fever is endemic to West Africa, the virus kills thousands of people each year.

It turns out that corporate West Africa also appreciates what's happening with our students.

Seventy percent of the world's cocoa comes from West Africa, but less than 1% of the world's chocolate is made there.

For some fragile states in West Africa, they may be acute, and dangerous.

Farmers in both East and West Africa can click a button on their cell phone to check prices on dozens of crops.

The tree is common in all forests of equatorial West Africa, more precisely in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Zaire, Cameroon and Nigeria.

Most foreign trading companies in West Africa deals in rubber, cocoa and vegetable oil.

Since then a gusher of non-OPEC oil has hit markets from fields in Latin America, west Africa and beyond.

The Pygmy Hippopotamus stands about one metre high and is native to West Africa. Numbers in the wild have fallen to below 2000 since 1993.

At first sight a foreign visitor could be mistaken into thinking he had arrived somewhere in the Caribbean or in west Africa.

Addax's oil and gas exploration and production activities are focused on west Africa and the Middle East.

He then exchanged views with trainees in South Africa, West Africa and East Africa via video.

In Central and West Africa primate meat . . . is a luxury item for the elite.

Prosperous, democratic and peaceful, it is an island of stability in the sea of insecurity and poverty that is West Africa.

Mulan told the Premier that more than 5, 000 people had received training in the West Africa training center over the years.

In 2005, The Lancet published research from an international team that found emerging resistance to artemisinin in West Africa.

Cocaine from the Andes is arriving at west Africa's ports, airports and border crossings.

Lassa fever, which wasn't first detected until 1969, in West Africa, is extremely virulent and little understood.

The current wave of cholera outbreaks started several weeks ago in West Africa.

When Lily Pinneo, a missionary nurse, was in West Africa, she contracted a deadly disease called Lassa fever.

Traveling though West Africa, I found good reason for optimism.

Also in west Africa, Iran has been pushing into Mauritania and has tightened its links with Nigeria.

WEST AFRICA has become an attractive trade route for Latin America's cocaine smugglers in recent years.

The study found the worst public healthcare systems in French-speaking West Africa, where staff are less likely to emigrate.

No wild black rhinos remain in West Africa, according to the latest global assessment of threatened species.

native to West Africa but grown in Java and elsewhere; resistant to coffee rust.

Deforestation in West Africa is largely driven by slash-and-burn agriculture for cocoa and other crops.

Product sales to Europe, South Africa, West Africa, Southeast Asia and other countries.

The manilla rings of West Africa were one of the currencies used from the 15th century onwards to buy and sell slaves.

Guinea's coastal zone is home to one-fourth of West Africa's mangroves.

Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso in West Africa with due respect and regard.

West Africa is the newest centre for trafficking drugs into Europe.

Health workers launched the new vaccine in Burkina Faso in West Africa.

A new Internet training center in Togo will give young people in that part of West Africa a chance to improve their job skills.

In parts of West Africa . . .

Some researchers say people living in cities in West Africa may have suffered most of all.

Today our programme is about the baobab tree, which grows in West Africa and Australia.

The island off West Africa must be made secure.

West Africa is facing the biggest swarm of locusts in more than a decade.

Nobody believes the official view that his oil-rich speck of a country of 500, 000-plus people in west Africa is a democracy.

Malaria is the main cause of illness and death in West Africa.

Mrs Kate Cambell J. : i served as missionary at west Africa Ghana but when i developed the illness i was brought back here in U.

Any of several pidgins based on English and now spoken mostly on the Pacific islands and in West Africa.

The Americas, monsoon Asia, and west Africa probably saw the independent invention of agriculture, though this is not certain.

The Ivory Coast in West Africa is the largest producer of cocoa beans.

Lassa viral haemorrhagic fever is an acute illness of 1-4 weeks duration that occurs in West Africa.

a republic in West Africa; established in 1822 by Americans as a way to free negro slaves.

Linguistic features that trace to West africa.

And, in Mali, the famous city of Timbuktu was once a cultural capital of West Africa.

Here's our West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy.

Now people are doing that in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and West Africa.

Things may be still harder in West Africa.

The picture was then switched to the Nigeria and West Africa training center. A female trainer introduced herself in fluent mandarin.

Even if you go to West Africa, you notice that market activity in West Africa has always been dominated by women.

And in West Africa, the gesture is even more insulting than the upraised middle finger.

Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo says opposition may lead to war in West Africa.

Regional forces have previously intervened in west Africa to prop up governments under threat, such as those in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

She has since worked to enhance the influence of women in West Africa during and after war.

Him and his men were behind a coup in West Africa.

Malek Triki works for the World Food Program in West Africa.

Just last summer, Giribet and some lab members traveled to West Africa to collect velvet worms in Cameroon and Gabon.

About 60 per cent of container ships arriving in west Africa come direct from Asia.

The Jiechu band comes from West Africa - Liberia in 2003. firstly it consist of Yima , Maria , Oliver and Denny.

Togo has become China's important trading partner in West Africa.

Another kind probably grew in West Africa.

Newly opened - the Togo Center in West Africa.

An overland route from West Africa would save many vital days and some shipping.

As more rice than maize is imported, local food prices in West Africa will be more affected.

This is more so especially in the Niger Delta as activities extend to the more challenging deepwater environments of offshore West Africa.

West Africa has become a target for both Chinese and other mining groups.

West Africa produces more than half of all cocoa beans.

The initial focus is 12 high-burden countries in Central and West Africa.

Since leaving Vietnam at 23, I have earned graduate degrees from Columbia and Harvard and worked in Canada, the US and west Africa.

In west Africa, lions number fewer than 1, 500 and meet the criteria for Regionally Endangered.

West Africa leads the world in cocoa production.

a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.

In 1988, another made the lengthy trek from West Africa to the Caribbean.

And in 2006, the Rivers state government's budget was US$1. 3 billion, larger than the budgets of many countries in West Africa.

See if you can find it on a map of West Africa.

Ashanti Gold Mine in West Africa.

There are still parts of the world, such as parts of West Africa, where fertility remains high.

There have been studies done on windbreaks in parts of West Africa, for example.

Addax Petroleum, which Sinopec will buy for $7. 3bn, pumps some 137, 000 barrels of oil a day in West Africa and Kurdistan.

For example, studies have been done on windbreaks in parts of West Africa.

Missionary couple Ray and Sophie de le Haye served heroically in West Africa for more than 40 years.

Closely related creatures in eastern South America and West Africa, for example, would indicate they came from shared ancestor species.

I'd started doing a lot of cocaine in West Africa.

In tone languages, such as Mandarin in China or Yoruba in West Africa, the pitch of a spoken word affects its meaning.

Phyllis Wheatley was only seven or eight years old when she was captured and taken from her home in West Africa.

They tested their theory on 2, 500 Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes in West Africa.

A new survey [PDF] has revealed that Gabon, west Africa, has between 15, 730 and 41, 373 female turtles using its nesting beaches.

For example, the women from Yoruba tribe in West Africa consume plenty of cassava, a type of yam or sweet potato.

Why UN set the first profitable organization in China and West Africa? !

This is the inspiring story of Mr. Mohammed Issaka from Ghana in West Africa.

I am from West Africa, LOme, capital of Togo.

I am from Rwanda in West Africa, 5. 4ft tall, light in complexion single, (never married ) and.

" Last year , the country was named the 'easiest place to open a new business' in West Africa by the World Bank, " President Koroma said .

Randgold, a producer of the metal in West Africa, slid 1. 5 percent to 5, 365 pence.

The most important fish in West Africa is the "Bonga" (Ethmalosa fimbriata).

This is West africa's biggest locust disaster in 15 years.

Some studies indicate that 300 000 to 500 000 cases of Lassa fever and 5000 deaths occur yearly across West Africa.

Other mega-regions have formed in Japan and Brazil and are developing in India, west Africa and elsewhere.

Agreement for the Establishment of a Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in North-West Africa;

Master Plan for Combating Desertification and for the Conservation of Natural Resources in West Africa;

Mesoscale modelling of interactions between rainfall and the land surface in West Africa

Tectonic evolution and its control on hydrocarbon accumulation in West Africa

European Invention of African Slavery: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade in West Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas

Consultative Meeting of the Chiefs of National Narcotics Laboratories in West Africa;

the Dogon people of west Africa believe they were the mothers of the first humans;

CESD; Bamako Declaration on the acceleration of the integration process in West Africa;

Researchers in West Africa have shown that spraying insecticide indoors can dramatically reduce

Intense convective systems in West Africa and their relationship to the African easterly jet

Tropical plumes and extreme precipitation in subtropical and tropical West Africa

Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa;

Technology and Its Improved Measures of Water-well Engineering in West Africa

Malaria epidemic posture and control effect of the peacekeeping area in west Africa

savannah n. treeless, grassy plain in tropical and subtropical America and East and West Africa

Forest Climbing Plants of West Africa: Diversity, Ecology and Management

Conflict diamonds are a common currency in West Africa,

Traveling in a train running on the unique railway in the West Africa

West Africa: 600km of urbanisation linking Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana, and driving the entire region's economy;

Aspirations of a Chinese in West Africa

The ECOMOG's Peacekeeping Actions in West Africa and The Theoretical Debate around Them

WARDA West Africa Rice Development Association

United Nations Special Committee for South West Africa ;

Tema Port Terminal Tema Ghana West Africa & Durban, South Africa

Pest controlling of the peace keeping army in west Africa

SACTU; South African Consolidated Revenue Fund (South West Africa Account)

Network on Migrations and Urbanization in West Africa;

Fast and slow acoustic velocity in soft sand layers and case study in West Africa

Rice Research and Developmental West Africa

African American Settlements in West Africa

Islamist fighters tied to al-Qaeda control a swathe of north-west Africa

Social Reconstruction in West Africa;

Administration of South West Africa ;

SWAPO-D; South West Africa People's Organization Office;

Islamic: located chiefly in the Middle East and north West Africa

Land Cover, Rainfall and Land-Surface Albedo in West Africa

CEEC; Central and West Africa Regional Office;

South West Africa Coloured Council ;