World Outlook

ADF STAFF Google plans to open its first artificial intelligence (AI) center on the African continent. The center, which was slated to open in 2018 in Accra, Ghana, will bring together top machine learning researchers and engineers and…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Tunisia’s tourism industry, hard hit by terror attacks in 2015, is rebounding, with revenues up nearly a third in the beginning of 2018, the sector’s minister said. “There is a significant improvement,” Tourism…

REUTERS The European Union plans to rapidly expand the training of Libyan Coast Guard personnel to stem migrant flows to Italy and to reduce deaths at sea. Rear Adm. Enrico Credendino, chief of the EU naval mission in the…

GHANA NEWS AGENCY Security professionals in Ghana and their counterparts from U.S. Africa Command held a forum to better prepare for disasters. The event focused on the capabilities of the military, police, fire service, National…

DEFENCEWEB Germany has given five patrol boats to the Nigerian Navy, which will use them to patrol Lake Chad and coastal creeks and deltas. The boats will be used, in part, to combat Boko Haram terrorists who have staged attacks around…

DEFENCEWEB Piracy across the world dropped in 2017 as officials reported a total of 180 attacks against ships to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). This is the lowest annual number of incidents since 1995, when 188 incidents…