What It's Like Founding A Tech Startup In Africa
• Business InsiderThe road for a start-up in Africa can be like a video game -- each time a player slays a monster, a larger one appears.
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The road for a start-up in Africa can be like a video game -- each time a player slays a monster, a larger one appears.
Obama administration reaction to the killing of Americans in Algeria has been eerily similar to the reaction when Americans were killed and U.S. sovereign territory was attacked in Benghazi. Inaction, empty rhetoric and the ceding any action to t
Five children and two adults were killed when African Union (AU) troops mistakenly shot into a religious school while pursuing militants, according to media reports.
The United States, incapable of allowing a military intervention to pass by without jumping on board, dutifully followed France in the Libya debacle, blowback from which was responsible for the re-igniting of the Touareg rebellion in Mali. France, wi
The UN Security Council has called for “rapid deployment” of international forces in Mali to combat Islamist militants in the north of the country. It comes as insurgents have seized the key city of Konna as they move south.
The U.S. government is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of two Sudanese nationals accused of killing a U.S. diplomat and his driver.
Imposing sanctions against a Rwandan rebel group is a step toward consolidating peace in DRC, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said.
Rebels in Central African Republic said they had halted their advance on the capital on Wednesday and agreed to start peace talks, averting a clash with regionally backed troops in the mineral-rich nation.
Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted, Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. Development aid weakens the local markets everywhere and dampens entrepreneurship.
A rhino farmer in South Africa is planning to use surveillance drones designed for the US military to combat poachers who are driving the animals towards extinction. Clive Vivier, cofounder of the Zululand rhino reserve in KwaZulu-Natal province,
Odierno Touts Plan for Fast Deployments Anywhere in the World
Africa is covered in epithets, like graffiti. It has been labeled dark, lost, hopeless.
Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said during a speech last week at the Center for a New American Security that the drone and commando war waged by the United States will intensify and expand outside the declared combat zone over the next f
"The United Nations wants to use drones for the first time to monitor fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda has been accused of aiding rebels," says the report, quoting U.N. officials.
Unbeknownst to the majority of people in the United States, the Pentagon is directing increased attention to the African continent.
It says much when the long-time rulers of two of Africa’s largest, most important nations, Egypt’s Husni Mubarak and Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi, had to fly to Europe for critical medical treatment because their own nations lacked facilities and speciali
It says much when the long-time rulers of two of Africa’s largest, most important nations, Egypt’s Husni Mubarak and Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi, had to fly to Europe for critical medical treatment because their own nations lacked facilities and speciali
Escalating violence and a vicious cycle of retaliation could leave Syria ungovernable even if a winner finally emerges from President Bashar al-Assad's battle with rebels.
A spokesman for the radical Islamic group controlling northern Mali says a couple who had an adulterous relationship was stoned to death this weekend in the town of Aguelhok.
So much for members of The Religion of Peace becoming aggressive due to foreign occupation.
Sudanese police are trying to subdue anti-government demonstrations that have gripped the country for a week.
The aircraft are Pilatus PC-12s, turboprops favored by the U.S. Special Operations forces for stealth missions precisely because of their nondescript appearance. There is no hint that they are carrying high-tech sensors and cameras that can film man-
Across the vast, rugged terrain of southern Yemen, an escalating campaign of U.S. drone strikes is stirring increasing sympathy for al-Qaeda-linked militants and driving tribesmen to join a network linked to terrorist plots against the United States.
Uganda: A South Sudanese official said Monday that his government expects Uganda to play a substantial role in resolving the border conflict that has at times threatened to plunge South Sudan and Sudan into a full-scale war.
Six months after President Obama ordered 100 elite troops to help capture the messianic warlord Joseph Kony, U.S. military commanders said Sunday that they have been unable to pick up his trail but believe he is hiding in this country’s dense jungle.
The ongoing military standoff between Sudan and South Sudan has forced thousands from their homes, fearing for their lives.
Africa is sitting on a giant reservoir of groundwater, British scientists have discovered. But the new information might prove both a boon and a curse.
Some 100 US troops are assisting in the capture of war criminal Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic. Congress did not authorize it; it is an other creeping intervention in others' business. As a wise man once said, "We just plain don't m
UN peacekeepers' camp struck as South Sudan says several killed in air raids, but Sudan denies cross-border attacks.
Both Sides Turn to Artillery Fire With Civilians Trapped in the Middle