From its new regional bureau in Yaounde, Interpol is moving to break-up the syndicates behind this organized crime by working with law enforcement officials in Cameroon,Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon as well as officials from the other countries it covers: Central African Republic, Chad,Congo,Sao Tome and Principe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Biosphere Reserves were inscribed in Haiti, Kazakhstan, and Sao Tome and Principe for the first time this year.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The other countries to benefit are Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, and Sudan.

BBC: Brazil 'to write off' almost $900m of African debt

This is the situation in the great majority of African countries with the exception of Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Madagascar, Mauritius, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, and Togo.

UNESCO: Africa needs one million new teachers by 2015