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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE After two decades without a national airline, Uganda commemorated the return of Uganda Airlines with a flight from…

REUTERS | Photos by OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, RWANDA Rwanda’s Mara Group has launched two smartphones, describing them as the…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | photos by AFP/GETTY IMAGES Thousands of African-American tourists have flocked to Ghana as part of the “Year…

ADF STAFF A joint rescue team from the Cameroonian Navy and its Rapid Intervention Battalion oil field protection group saved…

VOICE OF AMERICA Gen. Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has been named commander of the Somali National Army (SNA). At 32, he…

ADF STAFF Nigeria is making progress in deradicalizing former Boko Haram fighters.  The plan known as Operation Safe Corridor was…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Senior military officers from five African Great Lakes countries met to discuss strategies to respond to violence plaguing…

VOICE OF AMERICA At a time when bad news seems inescapable, the aid group Save the Children has some good…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS An invention by a South African engineer that dispenses pills has won a major engineering prize.…

VOICE OF AMERICA Kenya is facing one of the worst stretches of drought in years, causing underdevelopment, fights over water…