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Africa from 1980 to 2008  ADF STAFF Africa is home to a wide range of natural disasters. Floods come along with the rainy seasons in Mozambique, Madagascar and Ghana. Famines and droughts are common in East Africa, especially Somalia…

Kofi Portuphy Talks to ADF About His Nation’s Accomplishments and Challenges in Emergency Management Story by ADF STAFF, photo by SENIOR MASTER SGT. DAVID H. LIPP/NORTH DAKOTA AIR NATIONAL GUARD Kofi Portuphy is national coordinator of…

Kenya’s Military Embraces the Role of Disaster Responders BERENIKA STEFANSKA The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) received global attention during the devastating terror attack at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that left more than 60…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Ethiopian running star Haile Gebrselassie said he is entering politics with the aim of winning a parliamentary seat in the 2015 election. The 40-year-old’s announcement in July 2013 came after long-standing…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE When Eritrean cyclist Natnael Berhane crossed the finish line of the Tour of Turkey in May 2013, he made history not only for his country but for his continent. Natnael, 22, who took first place after the winner was…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the best-seller Half of a Yellow Sun, said writing a novel about the civil war that devastated her home region helped people connect with a past that most no longer…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE It is an extremely popular book form that originated in Japan, where it became a cultural phenomenon. Now manga comics are flourishing in Algeria as well. “The Algerian manga is our trademark,” said Salim Brahimi…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The European Union announced plans to increase security efforts in the Gulf of Guinea, the West African maritime region that has become a global piracy hot spot. The new measures will not include sending warships…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS A prize-winning scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has used his winnings to promote particle physics in Africa. Professor Tejinder Virdee, who was born and raised in Kenya,…

REUTERS Algeria has put the Army in charge of fighting drug trafficking, identified as the country’s top national security threat. “We are waging a war. It is a war against a new form of terrorism: drugs trafficking,” Daho Ould…