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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)The terrorists used ammunition with such merciless abandon their automatic gunfire tore through the Nairobi dawn like a chainsaw in long screaming bursts. [read more…]

In northeastern Nigeria, the militant group exploits a broken social system. There are lessons here for the rest of the world Zahra and Amina seem [read more…]

TULUROBA, KENYA —  For the women of Tuluroba village’s self-help group, the goal was simple: use their combined savings to buy cattle, fatten them and [read more…]

The tight-knit relationships of small communities can be difficult for people who feel they don’t fit in. But those same relationships can be the building [read more…]

When U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton rolled out the United States’ new Africa strategy last week, he used the occasion to identify China as [read more…]

The Peace Diamond, and the miner who found it, are at the center of a new push to redeem African diamond mining. From a pickup [read more…]

NOUAKCHOTT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mo had nothing but a set of jail clothes and the name of a distant cousin when he boarded the [read more…]

A Chinese state-owned company is behind rubber plantations that Cameroon villagers say threaten their livelihoods. Meyomessala, Cameroon – Meyomessala is a small forest community in [read more…]

Since its formation in eastern DR Congo 22 years ago, the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) terrorist organisation has laid waste to both Uganda as [read more…]

The goal is to put coffee-farming in the hands of young people by encouraging land-owning farmers to let younger family members use their land Like [read more…]