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BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS “Painting is for lazy people,” Ajarb Bernard Ategwa’s father would tell him as a child. Daydreaming and doodling in his schoolbooks would often get him scolded. But the Cameroonian artist, now 30, got the last…

VOICE OF AMERICA Bayern Munich, the champion of Germany’s Bundesliga, the top tier of the nation’s football league system, has signed an agreement to open its first football school in Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Bayern Munich…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE After two decades without a national airline, Uganda commemorated the return of Uganda Airlines with a flight from Entebbe to Nairobi, Kenya.  The airline initially will fly to seven destinations, including…

REUTERS | Photos by OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, RWANDA Rwanda’s Mara Group has launched two smartphones, describing them as the first “made in Africa” models and boosting the country’s ambitions to become a regional technology hub.  The…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | photos by AFP/GETTY IMAGES Thousands of African-American tourists have flocked to Ghana as part of the “Year of Return” commemorating the 400th anniversary of the slave trade.  “This has been about understanding…

ADF STAFF A joint rescue team from the Cameroonian Navy and its Rapid Intervention Battalion oil field protection group saved more than 100 people after a shipwreck. A storm caused a ferry, the Austerheim, to capsize near the island of…

VOICE OF AMERICA Gen. Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has been named commander of the Somali National Army (SNA). At 32, he is the youngest person to hold the title. He attended military training in Uganda and became an instructor to new recruits. He…

ADF STAFF Nigeria is making progress in deradicalizing former Boko Haram fighters.  The plan known as Operation Safe Corridor was unveiled in 2015 at a Nigerian National Security Council meeting when the government offered former Boko…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Senior military officers from five African Great Lakes countries met to discuss strategies to respond to violence plaguing the region. Senior officers from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),…

VOICE OF AMERICA At a time when bad news seems inescapable, the aid group Save the Children has some good news: Across the globe, children are healthier and safer than ever before. This is particularly true in Africa. According to a…