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Early Warning Tool Predicts Water Wars
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Researchers are using a monitoring tool that tracks water supplies worldwide and factors in social, economic and demographic data to forecast water-related conflict.
The tool being developed by the…
Water Project Signals Hope for Malian Town
The Malian military drilled a well to provide drinking water to schoolchildren in a town badly affected by extremism. The project in Menaka, near the border with Niger, is the latest effort by the Malian government to help restore peace to…
Chinese Officials Arrested on Bribery Charges in Kenya
Kenyan authorities arrested seven officials with the China Road and Bridge Corp. and accused them of bribing investigators who had been examining railway finances, Kenya’s Daily Nation reported.
The Standard Gauge Railway is a
$3 billion…
U.S. Gives Command-and-Control Facility to Niger
The United States handed over a command-and-control facility and equipment to Niger to support its fight against terrorism. The $16.5 million node will integrate intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and existing Nigerien Armed Forces…
SADC Mission Helps Stabilize Lesotho
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Soldiers who were sent to Lesotho in 2017 after the country’s top Army commander was killed withdrew from the area in November 2018. The Southern African Development Community (SADC), a regional bloc, deployed a…
President of Comoros Greets Trained Recruits
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Training for Comoran Soldiers and gendarmes can be tough — out of more than 900 people who enrolled in a training class, only 541 completed the course.
The training started in 2018 in Itsundzu and was called “Feta 2018.” The…