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Child welfare advocates in the United States file a federal lawsuit to require the Biden administration to block imports of products containing cocoa harvested by children in West Africa, alleging that Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security have ignored evidence of the existence of these imports.
2023-08-15

Sierra Leone declares a nationwide curfew amid anti-government protests that have killed two policemen and one civilian. The West African country is currently experiencing record inflation.
2022-08-11

The West African nations of the 15-member bloc ECOWAS suspend diplomatic relations with Mali and announce that they are closing their borders with and imposing economic sanctions on Mali in response to an "unacceptable delay" to the country's next general election.
2022-01-9

A boat carrying migrants from West Africa capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, resulting in 43 fatalities.
2021-01-20

The Gambia formally rejoins the Commonwealth five years after its former President Yahya Jammeh withdrew the West African country, calling it a "neocolonial institution".
2018-02-8

China sends an additional 232 People's Liberation Army medical workers to West Africa to combat the outbreak (in addition to the 78 that had previously been stationed).
2015-01-13

The World Health Organization reports that the death toll in the three worst affected countries in West Africa - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - has passed 5,000.
2014-11-13

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon announces the creation of an emergency mission to respond to the virus which has killed over 2,500 people in West Africa .
2014-09-18

Liberia closes schools and quarantines communities in order to stop the spread of the Ebola virus that has claimed 672 lives in West Africa.
2014-07-30

A Spanish oil tanker hijacked off the coast of West Africa is freed, with no harm reportedly done to the crew, and no ransom paid to the pirates.
2011-09-24