Current Events: West Africa

Domestic Policies

Throughout West Africa, many of the regions are similar within domestic policies. While people in each region have to find the best way to deal with the government for whats best, they also have to work for their own lifestyle.

Ever since 2003, ivory has become popular in West Africa. Many elephants would be found dead, mainly by gangs of poachers, and the tusks would be used for ivory trade. This benefited the people of the region because ivory is very popular in Western Africa. Even though the trade of ivory is beneficial for the people in countries such as Liberia and Nigeria, and increased the income of markets, the government found that the domestic trade of ivory was to be handled under national legislation. It was declared that if the terms for trading ivory were not met, every domestic, legal trading options would be taken away.

Although the people that dwell within West Africa need to make money, the best way to deal with that is to not interfere with the government. Especially after the civil war, the people had to remain civilized and opened minded. To remain opened minded was in the best interest of the countries because when it came to electing a president, the best thing to do is make the right decision that helped the people.

In Nigeria, the people not only suffered from a civil war in the past, but was recently told that a change was to be made in their money system. Even though this announcement had been made publicly, everything did not follow through as planned because the President had put a hold on things. With such confusion on the control of the country, the President Yar'Adua, has been known for his non-leadership. This situation left higher exspectations from each country in West Africa of what the new president is to be.

There are numerous issues thats are relavent to the domestic policies in West Africa. The leadership of the people and what decisions they make involvoing the government are the strongest choices to be made.