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REUTERS The Ghana Navy announced it freed a tanker that was hijacked off the coast of Nigeria and arrested eight…

DEFENCEWEB The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa and the University of Blida in Algeria signed…

[CORGENIX MEDICAL CORP.] BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the first rapid blood test for…

REUTERS When Namibians voted in November 2014, it marked a historic event as Africa’s first electronic election. Despite an 11th-hour…

Zakariya Ismail Hersi, a former senior al-Shabaab commander, speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia.…

[MOBIUS MOTORS] REUTERS On the edge of Nairobi, two doors down from a gleaming display of Germany’s luxury Porsche cars,…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE In the blue waters off Cape Town, South Africa, a revolutionary experiment with an electronic barrier seeks to…

Julia Rainer/IPS With annual economic growth rates of more than 10 percent and attractive investment conditions due to low infrastructural…

In the short history of Burkina Faso, one name towers above the rest: Thomas Sankara. Born into a working-class Catholic…

CLUES This former Roman colony was founded in the first century, during the reign of the Emperor Nerva. The site…