UNITED NATIONS NEWS SERVICE Noting the significant impact climatic activities have on Africa, the World Bank Group announced a plan…
Year: 2016
Story and photo by AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A Ghanaian inventor and church leader who started out trying to make voice-controlled television sets…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Somalia’s elegant colonial villas were left in ruins by two decades of street fighting among warlords, and the…
MEDIA CLUB SOUTH AFRICA She is already a scientist, biologist and president of Mauritius. Now Ameenah Gurib-Fakim can add another…
Jubo Jubogha started out as a slave and ended up a king in what is now southern Nigeria. Along the…
CLUES This town is East Africa’s oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement. Buildings were constructed with traditional Swahili techniques using coral,…
ADF STAFF Known as the “Black Decade,” the 1990s in Algeria were devastating. After a decision by the military to intervene…
U.S. Africa Command Staff Some problems don’t have simple solutions. The confounding decision by a young man or woman to…
Kenya is experiencing a growing threat of terrorism and violent extremism due to a number of factors. One: We share…
Programs to Deradicalize Extremists Are Necessary and Imperfect The idealized version of deradicalization is that it happens in an instant.…