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Tamasin Ford

July 2016

  • Njorku founder Churchill Nanje

    The tech continent: Africa's digital renaissance
    "I couldn't even pay for the internet": the Cameroonian who built jobs site in his bedroom

    Churchill Nanje, a 30-year-old who created Africa’s biggest job search engine, wants to help others follow in his footsteps

November 2014

  • Chocolate shopper in China

    The cocoa crisis: why the world’s stash of chocolate is melting away

    It’s the world’s favourite sweet treat – and this week one of the industry’s biggest players warned that supplies could soon be running low. Guardian writers around the world report on the causes of the problem, from disease and crop failure to the rise of the chocolate crisp

June 2014

  • MDG : Rape in Ivory Coast : Rape is a crime against humanity

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Sexual violence cases in Liberia and Ivory Coast a challenge to justice

    Ignorance and lack of understanding have blocked the route to redress for women raped in conflict in Liberia and Ivory Coast, reports Tamasin Ford

February 2014

  • MDG : Tongon gold mine in northern Ivory Coast

    Poverty matters blog
    Ivory Coast joins the African gold rush – but it's no quick fix for the economy

    Tamasin Ford: Mining companies are moving in after conflict left the vast natural resources untapped, but will these benefit ordinary Ivorians?

December 2013

  • An illegal logger fells a 300-400-year-old rosewood trees in Madagascar's Masoala national park,.

    Madagascar's forests vanish to feed taste for rosewood in west and China

    As political instability since the 2009 coup revives the illegal logging trade, precious bois de rose trees are now hard to find

May 2013

  • Ivory Coast finding reconstruction easier than reconciliation

    At first glance, Ivory Coast has come a long way since 2010's post-election violence. But is the progress merely an illusion? Tamasin Ford reports

March 2013

  • Global development voices
    International women's day: a voice from Seguela, Ivory Coast

    Mariam Toure, 26, says that women have to be educated. She did not go to school but now she is regretting missing out

January 2013

  • Composite of suffering tourism in Mali

    Mali tourism suffers after string of kidnappings - video

  • Tourism in Mali fades away as instability leads to hardship

December 2012

  • MDG solar lamps

    Innovations in development
    Solar-powered lamp-post provides ray of light for Mali

    Tamasin Ford: An Italian architect has transformed life in the Mali village of Sanogola by designing a portable, locally manufactured light

  • Bus station in Bamako, Mali

    Malians ready to fight to reclaim north - video

    People displaced by the conflict in northern Mali say they cannot wait for international help to reclaim the region from Islamist extremists. The UN security council is due to meet on Wednesday to discuss plans for a 3,300-strong regional Ecowas force to enter Mali. But militias in the country say they are preparing to take matters into their own hands

  • Mali civilians vow to take up arms against Islamist extremists

    Militias train male and female recruits for possible offensive amid anger over delayed international intervention

October 2012

  • MDG : Mental health in Liberia : Dakemue Kollie, mental health coordinator in Bong County

    Liberia slowly coming to terms with civil war's impact on mental health

    Liberia's 14-year civil conflict left a legacy of mental illness for many; a new scheme will offer hitherto absent medical support, writes Tamasin Ford

July 2012

  • MDG : Liberia : Deforestation on the edge of Sapo National Park

    Liberia's hasty forest sell-off risks more conflict

    More than half of Liberia's forests have been granted to logging firms, bypassing environmental laws and with few benefits to the people

May 2012

  • MDG : Domestic violence in West Africa : rape in Monrovia Liberia

    Domestic violence is biggest threat to west Africa's women, IRC says

    Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast need funding to address the humanitarian crisis of violence against women, report claims

April 2012

  • Warcrimes-Sierra-Leone-Liberia-verdict-Taylor

    Taylor verdict absorbed by a region that can forget, but not forgive

    Reaction to Charles Taylor conviction ranges from anger in Liberia, relief in Ivory Coast to acceptance in Sierra Leone

  • Charles Taylor's ex-wife: 'He's not responsible for Sierra Leone war crimes' - video

    Jewel Taylor discusses the charges against her ex-husband, former Liberian president Charles Taylor

  • Charles Taylor during his trial at the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone

    Charles Taylor verdict: 'He should taste the bitterness of the law'

    People in Sierra Leone and Liberia say what the imminent verdict in the ex-president's war crimes trial will mean

March 2012

  • Nobel peace prize winner defends law criminalising homosexuality in Liberia

  • Liberia's president and Tony Blair discuss anti-gay law – video

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