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(TIME) Corruption in Military Defense Spending Could Be Behind Rise in Africa Terror Attacks
Aryn Baker @arynebaker Jan. 18, 2016A series of recent terror attacks across Africa have raised fears of a new wave of extremist vi...
(Xinhua) Interview: Guinea hails Chinese medical team for role in defeating Ebola
Source: Xinhua 2016-01-15 20:45:33CONAKRY, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese medical team in Guinea has ...
(HuffPost) Burkina Faso, French Troops End Deadly Hotel Siege Claimed By Al Qaeda Group
01/16/2016 08:17 am ET | Updated 27 minutes agoAH...
(Face2Face Africa) Ivorian Entrepreneur plans to take Starbucks Out of Business
While Africa has unanimously been pegged the new frontier, with foreigners from various parts of the world looking to see how they can ...
Nigeria Goes to the Mall (NYT)
WARRI, Nigeria — Groups of children wandered inside, wide-eyed at the plenty. Teenagers and adults took selfies and group photos, ravin...
(All Africa) 10 Things to Watch in Africa in 2016
ANALYSISBy Nick Branson and Jamie HitchenStaying Power: Referenda in the Repu...
(Bloomberg) Guinea Names Mining Executive Mamady Youla as Prime Minister
By Ougna CamaraDecember 26, 2015 — 7:07 PM EST
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Africa outperforms global economy despite downward revisions (This is Africa)
Africa continues to outperform other world regions despite falling commodity prices and rising conflict in 2015, ...
(Face2Face Africa) Obama Appoints Adewale Adeyemo as Deputy National Security Adviser
16 December 2015 | By Face2Face Africa StaffU.S. President Barack Obama has named Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo h...