Tag Archives: Mali
(TIME) Corruption in Military Defense Spending Could Be Behind Rise in Africa Terror Attacks
Aryn Baker @arynebaker Jan. 18, 2016
A series of recent terror attacks across Africa have raised fears of a new wave of extremist vi...
(HuffPost) Burkina Faso, French Troops End Deadly Hotel Siege Claimed By Al Qaeda Group
01/16/2016 08:17 am ET | Updated 27 minutes ago
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Forces killed four attackers, ending the ...
(NYT) Jihadists Deepen Collaboration in North Africa
By CARLOTTA GALL JAN. 1, 2016
SAHARA DESERT, Niger — A group of light armored vehicles skated over the moonscape o...
(Newsweek) The Real Africa, Through the Lens of African Photographers
By Mirren Gidda On 12/22/15 at 2:00 AM
Africa has long been irresistible to art photographers. The diversity of its 54 nations, it...
(The Economist) For most urban Africans, owning anything other than a slum home is out of reach
LAGOS, the congested commercial capital of Nigeria, has a population variously estimated at anything from 12m-21m. But what is certain ...