Participants at a workshop on the "Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons to Information and Communication" held at Abokobi, have endorsed the nomination of Nii Laryea Sowah, Editor of the "Spark" and Executive Secretary of the Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana as West-Africa Coordinator of the newly created West Africa Media Network For Refugees.

Police arrested a High Court judge seen as having angered the government by ruling against it, accusing him of corruption, state television reported on Monday.

"What do you want?" is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: "Participatory Economics" - "Parecon" for short - a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically controlling their own lives.

As night falls in Gabon's capital Libreville, 13-year-old Arthur Goma stakes his patch for scraping out an existence in a country torn apart by devastating wealth inequality. For the street children of Libreville, survival is a nocturnal struggle of begging and gangland battles in a west African country which was once considered as one of the richest in Africa.

Kibera is famous, not as a centre of learning, but as one of Africa's largest slums. The majority of Kibera dwellers have poor incomes and lack basic amenities such as toilets and clean water. But all is not gloom in the sprawling slum. A school in Kibera was last week hailed as a shining example of how children from poor communities can successfully access free primary school education.