Superflux partners with MIT on technology transfer
LAGOS: Superflux Nigeria Limited has hosted a team of MBA students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, USA in order to advance the course of local content ...
View Articleteam studies effect of Esoko on farmers
LAGOS: A team from the New York University in the US have arrived in Ghana to carry out a study on the impact of the Esoko platform in assisting farmers to gain easy access to agricultural price ...
View ArticleICT firms to access capital from NSE
LAGOS: Mr. Demola Aladekomo, the President of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) flagship of all Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals and organizations in the country said ...
View ArticleUN urges efforts to reduce al-Qaeda threat in Somalia
NEW YORK (dpa): The United Nations said Monday the world commitment to peace and security in Somalia entails efforts to reduce threats posed by Islamist al-Shabaab insurgents, who have allied with ...
View ArticleSomalia - Young journalist gunned down in Galkayo in latest media killing
Ali Ahmed Abdi was shot dead by three gunmen as he was returning home yesterday in the north-central city of Galkayo, becoming the third journalist to be killed in Somalia since the start of ...
View ArticleOysters on the mean streets of Johannesburg
Imagine you are driving your car into central Johannesburg. It is a Saturday morning and the wind-blown streets are half empty. You have three children in the car, one playing on a small games ...
View ArticleThis grave desecration does not mean Libya is out of control | Ian Birrell
Damaged tombs at the British military cemetery in Benghazi, Libya 'Many will fear that this is a sign that Libya is spiralling out of control and facing the threat of Islamist ...
View ArticleAlgeria promises Libya it will rein in Gaddafi family
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The most senior Algerian official to visit Libya since its revolution promised on Monday that members of Muammar Gaddafi's family given refuge on Algerian soil will not be ...
View ArticleCyclone kills one in Mozambique
At least one person died when Cyclone Irina lashed the coasts of Mozambique and South Africa with heavy winds and rains at the weekend, officials said ...
View ArticleU.N. finds evidence of war crimes in Libya
A member of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) fires at pro-Gaddafi forces during clashes in eastern Libya, September 24, 2011. UPI/Amru ...
View ArticleVancouver-based Africa Oil defies Al-Qaeda in billion-barrel Somali well drill
Al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab soldiers patrol in formation along the streets of Dayniile district in Southern Mogadishu, March 5, 2012. In a Somali desert that’s home to this Al-Qaeda-linked ...
View ArticleCanadian WW II soldier's headstone smashed in Libya
The headstone of a Canadian soldier killed in the Second World War was among hundreds smashed during the weekend in Benghazi, Libya, after a mob angered by the accidental burning of Qur'ans by ...
View Article"Invisible" president has post-vote Congo on edge
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Three months after one of the world's most expensive elections, the Democratic Republic of Congo has no parliament or new government and its people are beginning to wonder ...
View ArticleIn eastern Libya, a push for more autonomy from Tripoli
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Civic leaders from Libya's eastern Cyrenaica province will on Tuesday launch a push for regional autonomy, posing a new challenge to the country's fragile cohesion ...
View ArticleSomalia insurgency moves north as pressure grows
The fight against Somalia's al-Qaida-linked insurgency may be moving north to an area previously considered safer than the war-ravaged south, analysts and officials told The Associated Press on ...
View ArticleSomalia - Radio station closed, media director arrested in Puntland
Radio Voice of Peace (Codka Nabadda Radio), Radio station (NUSOJ/IFEX) - March 4, 2012 - The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) protests the arrest and detention of a media director ...
View ArticleSomalia - "Stop the bloodbath, protect journalists and free...
Panelists (left to right): Esther Busser (ITUC), Somalia Ambassador Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, Omar Faruk Osman (NUSOJ), Jim Boumelha (IFJ) and Hlne Sackstein ...
View ArticleDeath Toll due to Explosions Reaches 206
Brazzaville, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) The death toll from an explosion at an arms depot reached 206, while 1,500 people were injured, the local press reported. A series of explosions caused by a short ...
View ArticleUS Commends Alison-Madueke's Leadership of Nigeria's O&G Industry
On Monday, the U.S. Government expressed confidence in the Nigeria oil and gas industry under the stewardship of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. In the last two ...
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