West Africa ditches dirty money
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The eight West African states that use the CFA franc begin replacing their old banknotes.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - African leaders lobbied the  Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money  Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital  for the continent's health, officials said.
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When he took office six months ago, President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to overhaul France's ties with Africa, scrapping the colonial mentality that long has tainted dealings with the continent.
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Nigerian banks United Bank of Africa and Standard Trust announce plans to merge and create the biggest bank in West Africa.
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They are clean, drink bottled mineral water and have money -- nationals from Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi transiting through the west African state of Mali, candidates for illegal immigration to Europe.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a farewell trip to Africa this week, after using his decade in power to try to rally the world's richest countries to help ease the plight of the world's poorest.
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The economies of sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the most extreme and pervasive poverty in the world, will grow at a healthy pace next year, International Monetary Fund economists said yesterday.
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It may take 146 years for Nigeria to wipe out corruption from its system going by the latest report by Transparency International (TI) which gave the country the third position among the most corrupt countries of the world.
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Seven years after the World Health   Organization heralded the virtual elimination of river   blindness from West Africa, the debilitating disease is   regaining ground in the world's poorest continent.
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Africa is starting to enjoy economic growth again after years of dismal statistics, but to cut poverty and be more competitive its countries must invest more in manufacturing and improve their export performance, a major United Nations report on the
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INSTABILITY is a way of life in West Africa, and Ivory Coast is the latest tragic example. A 2-year-old cease-fire, brokered by France, between Muslim rebels and the government of President Laurent Gbagbo
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Long after the precolonial gold city of Timbuktu faded from glory and Dakar&#39;s status as the capital of French West Africa expired, even after Monrovia&#39;s cosmopolitanism crumbled and the
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The parliament of Gambia, one of the world's poorest countries, passed a law on Wednesday to give former presidents free foreign holidays, cars and personal staff for life after they leave office.
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Socially responsible funds are raking in the assets.
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Young boys scamper along weed-entangled pipes, transforming an oil-pumping station marked "Not In Use" into a jungle gym in the heart of Nigeria's lawless oil region. Nearby wells rust under the palm trees, and gas-flaring chimneys have gone cold.
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.
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A local group is sparking a quiet sanitary revolution that the World Bank and UN call a model for other developing countries.