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Memo From Africa: Ill Will Grows in a Former Colonial Region as France Consorts With the Powerful

DAKAR, Senegal A waiter, reacting to the mosquitoes plaguing a customer on a recent hot night here, said sharply, “Those aren’t mosquitoes; those are French people!” Niger's president, Mamadou Tandja, far right, next to Alain Joyandet, France's ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mamadou Tandja,  Nicolas Sarkozy,  Columbia University,  Jean-Marie Bockel

World Briefing | Africa: Ivory Coast: Judge Rejects Request in Toxic Waste Case

About $45 million intended to compensate 30,000 victims of a toxic waste dumping scandal in Ivory Coast will not be diverted to a self-appointed community representative, a judge in Abidjan ruled Friday. The sludge was dumped in and around Abidjan in 2 ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

Bijagós, a Tranquil Haven in a Troubled Land

SOME tropical destinations have long since been discovered and made familiar; others may yet be found, by a few anyway, but are unlikely to change much anytime soon. Too much separates us from them, in culture, space and time. The Archipelago of the ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, International Herald Tribune,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

Payments in Ivoirian Toxic Dumping Case Disputed

DAKAR, Senegal Thousands of victims of one of the worst toxic dumping scandals in years could lose their hard-won settlement thanks to the maneuverings by a shadowy but “influential” figure in Ivory Coast, where the dumping occurred, the victims’ ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

With Obama in White House, U.S. Words Carry New Moral Weight in Guinea

CONAKRY, Guinea The Club Obama does not look like much, just a square thatched-roof platform jutting out to the ocean where jembe music, beer and the young mix at the edge of the pungent Boulbinet fish market. Soldiers gather there, too, particularly ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Council on Foreign Relations,  Bernard Kouchner

Defying Pariah Status, Guinea Boasts of a Deal With a Chinese Company

DAKAR, Senegal Guinea’s military government, facing international sanctions and heavy strictures over a mass killing of unarmed demonstrators, is highlighting a recent agreement with a Chinese company that could provide it with billions of dollars. ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  African Union,  United Nations,  Paul Kagame

U.S. protests killings in Guinea

message is, what happened on Sept. 28 is totally unacceptable, from every way you look at it — the killings, the gender violence," Fitzgerald said in an interview at the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday. "I said 'Mr. President, whether you like it or not, it's ...

From ADAM NOSSITER NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  Moussa Dadis Camara,  New York Times Company

U.S. Condemns Mass Killings and Rape in Guinea

CONAKRY, Guinea The Obama administration has injected itself into the crisis in Guinea, taking the unusual step of dispatching a senior diplomat to protest the mass killings and rape here last week as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Moussa Dadis Camara,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Barack Obama,  New York Times Company,  Bernard Kouchner

In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women as Prey

CONAKRY, Guinea Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Moussa Dadis Camara,  New York Times Company,  Bernard Kouchner

After Guinea Massacre, an Explanation From the Captain Who Is President

CONAKRY, Guinea At the military camp where he makes decisions he does not care for government buildings the captain who is president explained why he did not get to the political rally earlier this week that his soldiers turned into a bloodbath. Three ...

From ADAM NOSSITER, The New York Times,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Charles de Gaulle

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