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The New Wild West: Will Citizens and the Environment Suffer as an Oil Rush Engulfs West Africa?

Meena Bhandari, IPS News. November 21, 2011.

Offshore oil should be an economic boon for West Africa, but watchdog groups fear a devastating impact on human and wild life

Tribal Plate Tectonics: The Supposed Christian-Muslim Vendetta in West Africa Is a Front for a Much Simpler Story

Gary Brecher, eXiled Online. April 18, 2011.

What the election riots in Northern Nigeria, a military mutiny in Burkina Faso, and massacres in Ivory Coast have in common.

Hershey's Markets To Kids But Is Likely Implicated In Child Labor, Trafficking And Forced Labor

Peter Boaz, IPS News. September 24, 2010.

According to the report, modern slavery also abounds in areas such as manufacturing, harvest of raw materials, commercial sexual activity and violent acts against workers.

Under Guise of Combating Slavery, One Human Rights Group Is Colluding With the Exploitative Chocolate Industry

Christian Parenti, Democracy Now!. September 14, 2009.

Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves, champions his reform of the chocolate industry and halting child labor in West Africa. But no such thing has happened.

Pentagon Ramps Up Drug War in West Africa

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. June 30, 2008.

Schools of the Africas to replace School of the Americas?