West and Central Africa
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Overview
As Africa remembers the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, violent conflicts dogged much of the continent throughout 2014 – unfolding or escalating in a particularly bloody way in the Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan and Nigeria, and continuing unresolved in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan and Somalia.
Countries in West and Central Africa
Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo Cote d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone TogoOur offices
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Commentary
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Togo
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