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Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 05:46
Piracy will increase in the Gulf of Guinea as Nigeria prepares for an election next February in order to funnel ransom money into campaign financing, intelligence experts told a shipping conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 05:44
It’s a different kind of hot spot to which U.S. Army troops are deploying in increasing numbers, helping to fight against a terror that has killed by the thousands but not with bombs or bullets.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 05:43
Despite a weaker than expected global economy, with a number of major countries showing mixed performances, growth prospects for Africa remain positive and the region’s GDP growth is projected to rise to 5.2% in 2015-16 and 5.3% in 2017.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 05:38
The leaders of Nigeria and its neighbouring countries met in Niger on Tuesday for talks on finalising a multi-national force to fight Boko Haram Islamist militants.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 05:35
The European Union said Tuesday it is urgently airlifting relief goods to West Africa to combat the Ebola crisis, as the disease threatened its shores with an infection in Spain.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 05:27
The Pentagon's fight against the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa could last a year, the top American general overseeing operations in Africa said Tuesday, marking yet another expansion of the White House's desperate fight to slow the spread of the deadly virus.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 08:01
Arab and other allied countries have carried out about 10 percent of the nearly 2,000 air raids against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria since early August, US defense officials said Monday.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 07:47
On a dusty firing range outside the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Irbil, peshmerga fighter Ardalan Aziz Hamad hefts his new German-made assault rifle and is clearly impressed.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 07:47
Accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is the only opportunity for Armenia to solve its security problem, the head of the Democratic Party of Armenia Ara Sargsyan said.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 07:45
Last weekend’s declaration of support for ISIL by the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), better known as the Pakistani Taliban, signals a new phase in the insurgencies in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This strategic link-up between ISIL and militants further east is an ominous development not only for US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, but also for the regional powers near the conflict zone.