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Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Guardian - Liberians take to the streets for marathon in Monrovia
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Tamasin Ford
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Tamasin has been a reporter for the BBC for more than ten years, covering news and feature stories in Europe for BBC television, radio and online outlets. She now lives in Abidjan, reporting for the BBC from Cote d'Ivoire. She has also reported from Mali, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Liberia - mainly for the BBC, Guardian and NPR as well as other news outlets.
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IVORY COAST

BBC - P-Square rock Abidjan
BBC - A feast of female singers for International Women's Day
BBC - 'Singing what they want' - reggae in Ivory Coast
The Guardian - Ivory Coast joins the African gold rush - but it's no quick fix for the economy
BBC - Ivory Coast hopes for a golden future
BBC - Abidjan - cyber capital of Africa
BBC - Crack down on music piracy
BBC - The need to speak English...
BBC - Rising price of chocolate
BBC - The trials of teenage pregnancy
BBC - Ghanaian President defends Ivorian government
BBC - Increase in sexual violence
BBC - Ivory Coast hopes to squeeze profits from palm oil
BBC - Palm oil comes home
BBC - West Africa's only female forensic scientist
BBC - Les Elephants!
BBC - Tour de Cote d'Ivoire
BBC - Are tourists ready to come back to Ivory Coast?
BBC - Ambitious plans for Abidjan zoo
BBC - 'Telenovelas' dominate the screens in Abidjan
BBC - Laurent Gbagbo's son calls for peace
BBC - The villain of Abidjan
BBC - Cervical cancer - the silent killer
BBC - Corruption - is it ever acceptable?
BBC - Pokou Princess Ashanti - Ivory Coast's first 3D animated film
BBC - Women speak out against female genital mutilation
BBC - What is middle class in Ivory Coast?
BBC - A woman's battle to get her land back - radio
BBC - A woman's battle to inherit land in Ivory Coast
The Guardian - Ivory Coast finding construction easier than reconciliation
BBC - Mobile data redraws bus routes in Abidjan
BBC - Ivory Coast's economy bounces back
BBC - Ivory Coast strengthens ties with Lebanon
BBC - Ivory Coast at the centre of pioneering science
BBC - An African Pope?
The Guardian - International Women's Day: A voice from Seguela
BBC - Victor's justice in Ivory Coast
BBC - Laurent Gbagbo faces the ICC in the Hague
The Guardian - Refugees tell of Ivory Coast violence after fleeing Liberia
The Guardian - Ivory Coast rebels have killed hundreds, say observers
The Guardian - Ivory Coast horror recounted by victims and perpetrators
BBC News Online - Scramble to flee Ivory Coast's unrest

MALI

The Guardian - Solar-powered lamp-post provides ray of light for Mali
The Guardian - Tourism in Mali fades away as instability leads to hardship
The Guardian - Malians vow to take up arms against Islamic extremists
DW - Musicians in Mali take a stand against terror and violence
BBC R4 Today prog - Live reporting on French intervention in Mali
NPR - Despite censorship, Mali's musicians play on
DW - People in Mali face major economic crisis
NPR - Why no one's going to Timbuctu these days
NPR - Malians angry at delay in military intervention
Sky News - Live reporting on the French intervention in Mali
The Guardian - Mali tourism suffers after strong of kidnappings - video
The Guardian - Malians ready to reclaim the north - video
DW-TV - Live reporting from Mali as PM resigns, Dec 2012

SIERRA LEONE

NPR - Sierra Leone's diamonds still a source of contention
BBC - From Our Own Correspondent dispatch from Sierra Leone
BBC News Online - Pirate fishermen off Sierra Leone 'export to EU'
CNN - Live reporting during the 2012 Sierra Leone elections
DW-TV - Live reporting during the 2012 Sierra Leone elections

MADAGASCAR

The Guardian - Madagascar's forests vanish to feed taste for 'bois de rose'
BBC - In search of Madagascar's 'rosewood mafia'
BBC - The illicit 'bois de rose' industry
BBC - My 'bois de rose' encounter

BURKINA FASO

BBC - Burkina Faso were so close!
BBC - Burkina Faso reach the Africa Cup of Nations final


EUROPE

RADIO
BBC Radio 4 - 50,000 youths homeless this Christmas
BBC Radio 4 - The future of Scotland's fishing towns
BBC Radio 4 - Looking for love in Ireland
BBC World Service - Stag parties warned of Riga scam

TV
BBC News Channel - EU fish quotas threaten fishing industry
BBC One O'Clock News - World's biggest matchmaking festival
BBC News Channel - I drank anything and everything
BBC News Channel - CCTV reveals prison drugs trade
BBC News Channel - Greek clampdown on drunken Brits

ONLINE
BBC News Channel - Italy battles youth drinking problem
BBC Radio 1, Newsbeat - What's being done about unemployment?
BBC News Online - Polo's young punk cousin
BBC News Online - We don't want another family to lose another child
BBC Sport Online - Logan bitten by triathlon bug
BBC Radio 1, Newsbeat - A lesson in catching small big air
BBC Radio 1, Newsbeat - Under 25's hit worst by recession
BBC Radio 1, Newsbeat - What does the Gaza conflict mean to you?

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LIBERIA

BBC - The inexhausible energy of one Liberian entrepreneur
NPR - Even with peace it's hard to be a Liberian entrepreneur
BBC - Pirate fishing in West Africa
NPR - Liberia to investigate logging of rainforests
DW - Krumping hits the dance floors in Liberia
NPR - For Liberian youth, a creative outlet in krumping
DW - Living with HIV in Liberia
NPR - Liberia's first large-scale military operation since the conflict
DW - Liberia launches military operation
DW - Illegal hunters turned protectors
NPR - In his country, Charles Taylor still has suuport
NPR - Charles Taylor verdict spurs anger from Liberians
NPR - Charles Taylor faces verdict from brutal African war
NPR - After decades away, tourists return to Liberia
NPR - Liberian LGBT rights under spotlight
BBC - How do you put a price on nature?
BBC - Food security in Liberia
BBC - From Our Own Correspondent dispatch from Liberia
BBC - From Our Own Correspondent dispatch from Liberia
BBC - From Our Own Correspondent dispatch from Liberia/ Sierra Leone
BBC World - Live reporting during Charles Taylor sentencing, May 2012
BBC World - Live reporting during Charles Taylor verdict, April 2012
The Guardian - Charles Taylor's ex-wife: 'He's not responsible for Sierra Leone war crimes'
The Guardian - Liberia's president and Tony Blair discuss anti-gay law
BBC News Online - Making charcoal from Liberian rubber trees
The Guardian - Liberian former warlord running for President
The Guardian - Refugees tell of Ivory Coast violence after fleeing Liberia
The Guardian - Liberia slowly comes to terms with civil war's impact on mental health
BBC News Online - Liberia's failed logging promises
The Washington Times - Liberians reluctantly reactivate army
The Africa Report - Youths need a future - President of Liberia
The Africa Report - Liberia's growing pains
The Africa Report - Iron ore drives Liberia's extraction boom
The Africa Report - Making concessions in Liberia
The Africa Report - Liberian land for sale but Liberians are the last informed
The Guardian - Liberia's hasty forest sell-off risks more conflict
The Guardian - Domestic violence is biggest threat to West Africa's women, IRC says
The Guardian - Taylor verdict absorbed by a region that can forget, but not forgive
The Guardian - Charles Taylor verdict: 'He should taste the bitterness of the law'
The Guardian - Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia
The Guardian - Liberia land deals with foreign firms 'could sow seeds of conflict'
The Guardian - Avoiding a 'wild west' logging in Liberia
The Guardian - Wronged women of Liberia reluctant to revisit human rights abuses
The Guardian - Liberia's battle to put the lights back on
The Guardian - Liberia violence breaks out before the election
The Guardian - Liberia presidential election is thrown into chaos by opposition's boycott call
BBC News Online - Liberia's heated election and fears of media crackdown
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