| GUINEA: Military warns of more protests if demands not met |
 CONAKRY, 17 August 2007 (IRIN) - Guinean soldiers warn they could stage fresh protests within weeks if the government fails to meet demands that were at the centre of military-led riots in May that left two people dead and several injured.
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| IRIN: Today's most popular IRIN articles |
NAIROBI, 17 August 2007 (IRIN) - Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the latest, most popular items of today.
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| WEST AFRICA: Region making headway on food fortification |
 DAKAR, 14 August 2007 (IRIN) - Basic nutrients people need to survive have been added to food around the world for almost a century, but West Africa is only now leading the way for the same life-saving technique to be rolled out in Africa, although experts warn it is just one small component in combating under-nutrition.
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| GUINEA: Aid package targets drinking water in Guinea’s Forest Region |
 NZEREKORE, 31 July 2007 (IRIN) - One of the aims of a US$80million aid package signed on 20 July by the Guinean government and 14 UN agencies is to boost drinking water availability in the troubled Forest Region in the southeast of the country.
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| GUINEA: Donors to give $90 million to boost basic services |
 CONAKRY, 26 July 2007 (IRIN) - International donors have committed US$90 million to help the Guinean government improve access to water, electricity and food and tackle mass youth unemployment. These are stop-gap measures designed to appease a population desperate for better living conditions.
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| WEST AFRICA: New evidence democracy reduces corruption |
 DAKAR, 17 July 2007 (IRIN) - West African countries which have made gains in democracy, such as Ghana, Liberia and Niger, also appear to have reined in corruption, according to a 10 July 2007 World Bank report.
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| AFRICA: Can pastoralism survive in the 21st century? |
 ISIOLO, 13 July 2007 (IRIN) - Pastoralism is under threat – from climate change, shifting global markets and increased competition for land and other natural resources – even though it generates substantial income in areas where conventional farming is not possible.
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| GUINEA: Government stalls on probe into alleged abuses |
DAKAR, 11 July 2007 (IRIN) - Two months after Guinea’s parliament voted for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses by government security forces, legal experts, rights advocates and union leaders are questioning why the probe has not yet gotten off the ground.
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| WEST AFRICA: Impunity and low risk make region “haven” for traffickers |
 DAKAR, 5 July 2007 (IRIN) - While worldwide production, trafficking and consumption of illegal drugs remained stable last year, West Africa bucked the global trend and saw increased trafficking and use of cocaine and other drugs, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2007 World Drug Report.
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| WEST AFRICA: Poverty, search for status driving migration to Europe |
 DAKAR, 4 July 2007 (IRIN) - Behind the Soumbedioune fish market in the centre of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, three men jumped out of a brightly decorated canoe laden with fish. Each of these three has already attempted the dangerous, 1448km journey from Senegal to the Canary Islands and forms part of the rising tide of illegal immigrants gambling with their lives at sea for better work, better pay, and better lives in Europe.
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