The 1990s saw him travel to the West African state of Ghana to shoot a video with Barry White.
Her book, which is shortlisted for the Orange Prize, is about friendship and war in the troubled West African state.
Her enemies associated her with the Americo-Liberians, descendants of the freed slaves who founded the small west African state in 1847.
France currently has 4, 000 troops in the West African state, having intervened militarily amid fears the rebels were preparing to advance on Bamako.
Some 4, 000 French troops are present in the West African state.
Police in the West African state of Benin are hunting for the third alleged plotter suspected of mounting a failed coup to unseat the country's president.
Mr Janeck, in his early fifties and from Chatham in Kent, was working on a contract for the Department for International Development in the West African state.
Police in the West African state of Senegal say they have broken up a sex racket that was to involve the trafficking of a plane load of young women.
It's in the west African state of Congo Brazzaville and at least half-a-million people have been made homeless by a conflict, which has until now been hidden in the dense forests.
In 1996, Ruth Perry was chosen by a meeting of West African heads of state to chair Liberia's ruling council, thus becoming Africa's first woman head of state.
More than 15 heads of state, including almost all the West African leaders, attended the ceremony, which ended with the release of 100 doves into the air.
In 1997, Sierra Leone's military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, was sworn in as head of state and pledged to restore peace to the war-weary West African nation.
In comments to reporters earlier this month, then State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the administration was talking with West African leaders about how to resolve the matter.
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Various heads of state will attend, including Burkina Faso and Nigeria, according to the Economic Community Of West African States, the regional bloc.
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