Peace Corps worker to speak

Peace Corps worker to speak
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Instead, she chose to volunteer for the Peace Corps, using her language skills in Niger, a former French colony in West Africa and one of the poorest nations ...

Rene Preval sworn in as Haiti�s president again
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... Experts say Preval�s skills at governing and healing Haiti�s deep social rifts will largely determine whether the former French colony will move toward ...

Russia's Renova to explore for metals in Gabon
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
... It has said it also plans to mine platinum in South Africa. Gabon, a former French colony, sits on the equator on the west coast of Africa. ...

Showing Senegal's WWII heroes
BBC News - UK
... France in 1940. A group of soldiers from Senegal - at the time a French colony - are sent to protect them. Acclaimed actor William ...