Antibiotics being given to people who are undergoing surgery has been debated for a long time. What doses should they be given, and for how long? The Conversation Africa’s Health and Medicine…
Dissatisfied ex-combatants who aren’t serving in Côte d’Ivoire’s formal military structures pose the biggest long-term threat to the stability of the country. This is particularly true in regions where groups of these…
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a vast country rich in natural resources including the world’s largest reserves of cobalt, and substantial quantities of diamonds, gold and copper. It also has…
The agricultural sector is the world’s largest single employer. It provides jobs for more than 40% of the global population. It’s also the largest source of income and jobs for poor, rural…
Tax evasion benefits individuals to the detriment of society, wiping out state services. It also hampers the achievement of the eight United Nations millennium development goals (MDGs), which were designed to meet…
The countries of West Africa’s Sahel region have requested $56 million from the EU to help set up a multi-national force to take on Islamist militant groups across the vast, arid region. The…
At Baledogle, an old Soviet airport seventy miles northwest of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, about thirty to forty U.S. operatives are managing an undercover drone operation. Somali commandos are also being trained at…
AFRICOM Commander General Thomas D. Waldhauser was in Brussels to meet with the European Union (EU) Chiefs of Defense (CHODs) and discuss the current state of affairs in a number of African…
Liberia’s Foreign Affairs Minister and Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Marjon Kamara, applauded the positive results the regional organization achieved in recent…
Moroccan supporters of Emanuel Macron’s En Marche! party (its official name is now La République en marche!) said they would not support the party’s candidate in the legislative election for the French…
