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Norway,West African Partners Create Maritime Center
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The Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) has established a Regional Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Center (RMCSC) to help counter illegal fishing.
Headquartered in Tema, Ghana, the center will…
U.S. Trains Mozambican Forces Battling Insurgency
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
U.S. military personnel will spend two months training Soldiers in Mozambique to help the country fight an extremist insurgency in the northeast.
Insurgents have launched regular attacks in the gas-rich Cabo…
Ugandan Innovators Develop Rapid COVID-19 Test
REUTERS
Uganda launched a rapid COVID-19 antibody test that developers hope can help doctors track the virus more widely across Africa. The test, which requires a finger prick to draw blood, was developed by a team at Makerere, Uganda’s…
Angola Moves Toward a Mine-Free Future
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After three decades of civil war, Angola is left with a deadly legacy: land mines. Although fighting ended in 2002, Angola remains one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. Land mine explosions killed 76 people in…
Ghana Launches Operations Center to Fight Cybercrime
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Ghana opened a security operations center (SOC) to monitor and respond to cyberattacks.
The center, run by the National Information Technology Agency under the Ministry of Communications, will protect data from Ghana’s…
Smartphone Malware Leads to Calls for African Tech Independence
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Cyber security experts say Africa’s top smartphone brand has sold tens of thousands of phones loaded with malicious software. The phones drain users’ data, sign them up for subscription services without their knowledge, and…