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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…

DEFENCEWEB The Libyan Army has taken delivery of 200 high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles, commonly known as Humvees, for use in border patrol and security duties. The country continues to rebuild and strengthen the Armed Forces…

MAGHAREBIA.COM Mauritania and Niger signed a military cooperation agreement in Nouakchott in August 2013 that both sides hope will help combat terrorism in the Sahel. Nigerien Foreign Minister Mohamed Bazoum signed the accord after…

MAGHAREBIA.COM Moroccan officers from the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance arrested four members of a terrorist cell operating in Tiznit, Fez, Meknes and Taounat, the Interior Ministry announced in August 2013. One of…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS A huge water source has been discovered in the arid Turkana region of northern Kenya, which could supply the country for 70 years, the government says. The discovery of two aquifers brings hope to the…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A United States utility company is building the first solar power plant in electricity-starved Guinea-Bissau. In May 2013, Prime Minister Rui Duarte Barros laid the first stone of Suntrough Energy’s $30 million…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Mahmud Zubairu scrutinizes the computer screen, watching the progress of health care workers as they fan out across Nigeria’s northern Kano state where polio is prevalent. The dozens of teams are going door to…

REUTERS Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days. Africans themselves are waking up to the potential in their own back yard. The same trends that have…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The World Bank has approved a $340 million financing package for a crucial hydroelectric power plant in Africa’s Great Lakes region, a project long delayed by ethnic conflict. In August 2013, the World Bank board…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A bell rings, and the floor of Ethiopia’s Commodities Exchange (ECX) is flooded with traders dressed in colored coats, waving hands, and shouting bids for coffee, sesame seeds and haricot beans. After a feverish…