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Parent topics
- Africa [r]: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savannah as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. [e]
- African Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Countries
- Benin [r]: An African republic, bordering Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger and the Gulf of Guinea, which gained independence from France in 1960. [e]
- Burkina Faso [r]: Landlocked West African nation with significant gold reserves and an economy based primarily on cotton; formerly a French colony (population about 18 million). [e]
- Cape Verde [r]: Island republic, spanning an archipelago of ten islands and five islets in the Atlantic Ocean, off Senegal. [e]
- Cote d'Ivoire [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gambia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ghana [r]: A country in West Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Togo. [e]
- Guinea [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Guinea (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Guinea Bissau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liberia [r]: Republic located on the west coast of Africa, bounded by Guinea in the north, Ivory Coast in the east and Sierra Leone in the north-west. [e]
- Mali [r]: Landlocked republic in Africa, bounded north-west by Mauritania, north-east by Algeria, west by Senegal, east by Niger, and south by Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Guinea. [e]
- Niger [r]: A country in Western Africa, with one of the worst qualities of life in the world. [e]
- Nigeria [r]: Country on the coast of West Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean in the south, Niger to the north, Benin to the west, and Cameroon to the east. [e]
- Senegal [r]: Once a French colony, now an influential yet Highly Indebted Poor Country with diplomatic and military impact well beyond its borders [e]
- Sierra Leone [r]: Former British colony on the coast of West Africa, extremely rich in resources including blood diamonds, temperate climate, but failed state due to repeated civil wars and banditry; capital, Freetown, was a significant convoy port in WWII [e]
- Togo [r]: Republic located on the west coast of Africa. The country is bounded by Burkina Faso in the north, Benin in the east and Ghana in the west, with access to the Atlantic Ocean. [e]
Regional organizations
- Economic Community of West African States [r]: An active sub-continental organization for economic development and conflict resolution [e]
- West African Health Organisation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- West African Monetary Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- West African Monetary Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ECOWAS Youth & Sports Development Centre [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ECOWAS Gender Development Centre [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Water Ressources Coordination Unit [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ECOWAS Brown Card [r]: Add brief definition or description
- West African Power Pool [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations Office for West Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description
Issues
- Blood diamonds [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Failed state [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Weak state [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab [r]: Add brief definition or description