Julia Rainer/IPS With annual economic growth rates of more than 10 percent and attractive investment conditions due to low infrastructural…
Year: 2015
In the short history of Burkina Faso, one name towers above the rest: Thomas Sankara. Born into a working-class Catholic…
CLUES This former Roman colony was founded in the first century, during the reign of the Emperor Nerva. The site…
For decades, Africa has been host to many of the world’s peacekeeping missions. This has been challenging, but one benefit…
In September 2014, Ugandan authorities discovered an al-Shabaab terrorist cell operating in our biggest city, Kampala. Explosives were discovered in…
REUTERS Côte d’Ivoire is increasing rice production and processing in hopes of beginning exports in 2018 and generating more than…
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan formally launched a national electronic identity card in August 2014, which all…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The dunes of Merzouga tower over the small community in southeastern Morocco, where the Berber Ait Atta tribe…
VOICE OF AMERICA In Liberia’s capital, the hit song Ebola in Town has a danceable beat and conveys a serious…
COL. DANIEL HAMPTON AFRICA CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES Hampton, a senior military advisor at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS),…