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Nigeria’s College Includes a ‘Think Tank’ for Research ADF STAFF First came battle command, the science of directing and leading armed forces against an enemy. Battle command was the core curriculum of the first military staff colleges,…

Under Pressure, Boko Haram Is Changing Its Tactics ADF STAFF In a neighborhood of mud-brick buildings in Diffa, Niger, young men say there is one opportunity for work that is always lurking in the shadows. The job offers come from…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wilson Kipsang won the London Marathon for the second time on April 13, 2014, producing a course record. He managed to hold off a strong field despite arriving late in the British capital after his passport was stolen.…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Headlines portray the Sahara as a barren desert that claims the lives of many migrants. But Nigerian poet Tade Ipadeola had a different story to tell — and it was worth $100,000. Ipadeola’s The Sahara Testaments won…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Until 2013, the only tourist attraction in the Benin town of Ouidah was a massive monument to the area’s bleak history as a slave trading hub. Now the town is the home to something entirely different — the first…

Nigeria's ambassador to the United States Ade Adefuye speaks to U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman at a meeting in Abuja, Nigeria in 2013. ADF STAFF Nigeria and the United States have pledged to become more involved…

REUTERS The idea of Japanese consumers eating sushi exported from a tiny African country with no coastline may sound improbable, but the kingdom of Lesotho is pulling it off. Hatched in the boardroom of South African bullion producer Gold…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A revamp of Liberia’s four seaports is pointing the way to an economic transformation that aims to put the ravages of this West African nation’s civil wars behind it. A decade after the end of the hostilities,…

REUTERS IBM is rolling out its Watson supercomputer system across Africa, saying it will help address continental development obstacles as diverse as medical diagnoses, economic data collection and e-commerce research. The world’s biggest…

SABAHIONLINE.COM Kenyan police arrested two men in March 2014 who were illegally driving a vehicle in Mombasa that was later discovered to be packed with explosives. “We have not established where the target was, but we have detained two…