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ADF STAFF Aircraft from the Royal Moroccan Air Force and U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing 3 flew over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Atlantic Ocean on March 3, 2021, during exercise Lightning Handshake. The…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS In Kenya, the road linking the capital, Nairobi, and the town of Naivasha had some rather different-looking cars on it jostling with the matatus, buses and lorries. The rally cars were in the country in June…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds since Tutankhamun’s tomb. Famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass announced…

ADF STAFF A nine-part series charting the global rise of Afrobeats has premiered in Lagos, Nigeria. “Afrobeats: The Backstory” was shot over the course of 20 years. The documentary was produced by Nigerian filmmaker Ayo Shonaiya and…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS “Africa … We are here! Game on!” were the words used by Amadou Gallo Fall of Senegal to launch the inaugural Basketball Africa League (BAL) in May 2021. Fall, the league’s president, was on hand for the…

ADF STAFF Two workers from the Samira gold mine in western Niger died when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) in October 2020. Five months later, another bomb killed members of the nation’s Independent National…