2016

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE An Australian warship seized almost 2,000 assault rifles, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns destined for Somalia in March 2016. Sailors from the HMAS Darwin boarded a fishing boat that was headed toward the…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/REUTERS The United States is partnering with Tunisia to install an electronic security surveillance system on the country’s border with strife-torn Libya, the U.S. Embassy said in March 2016. The $24.9 million…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS What was supposed to be a naval training maneuver off the coast of West Africa turned into a rescue mission when pirates hijacked an oil tanker. Navies from Ghana, Nigeria, Togo and the United States tracked the…

VOICE OF AMERICA Kenyan police added 30 armored personnel carriers (APCs) to be used in areas hit by terrorism. To protect and equip police officers, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta authorized the deployment of the APCs to the…

REUTERS Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea signed an agreement to establish combined patrols to bolster security in the Gulf of Guinea, which has been plagued by pirates in recent years. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed the…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Drones could be used to solve the logistical challenge of swiftly delivering HIV/AIDS care in rural Malawi, a  United Nations official said. The government reported that 10,000 children died of HIV-related…

JEFFREY MOYO/INTER PRESS SERVICE Tichaona Muzariri, a villager in Chivhu, a town 143 kilometers south of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, quit his job as a teacher in 2009 to start a rabbit farm. He had three female rabbits and one male.…

VOICE OF AMERICA Researchers in Uganda say they have developed a new Ebola test kit that detects the virus in minutes, replacing current tests that take anywhere from several hours to several days. The development is a potential…

THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Beekeeper Ayenalem Ketema is the proud owner of three hives, which have produced enough honey for the young Ethiopian to build a house equipped with solar panels and buy some farm animals with the proceeds.…

MEDIA CLUB SOUTH AFRICA Although Africa has among the lowest higher education enrollment rates in the world, the 21st century has seen huge growth in virtually all its tertiary education systems. In Uganda, where Makerere University…