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Geodynamics of mineral resources in West Africa

Environment and Resources department - Water and soil ressources - Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

January 2006

Mineral resources account for more than 50% of exports from the 19 West African countries involved in the Agremoa programme. They play a crucial role in the region’s development. The IRD and its partners are working to improve understanding of the geological structure and geodynamics of the West ...

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Saharan migration: the truth a far cry from popular myths

Societies department - Human and social sciences - Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, Tunisia

January 2004

Migration from sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa has increased as never before over the past 15 years or so. What routes are the migrants following and how are they settling in North Africa? What social and spatial changes are these new settlement patterns generating? What effects are today’s ...

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