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At least four people have been killed in a car bomb attack outside a police station in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police said.  The bomb targeted the Waberi district police station on the busy Maka Almukarramah road, Major Mohamed Hussein told Reuters news agency. “A suicide car bomb exploded at the…

About half of Niger’s 20 million population have no access to a safe supply of drinking water. In the country’s most fertile region, Agadez, severe water shortages are causing farmers to struggle. And inadequate irrigation systems are helping to push food prices higher. Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan reports. The post…

TORONTO, Canada, 21 juin 2017 ,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The MasterCard Foundation a annoncé aujourd’hui la nomination de trois nouveaux membres à son Conseil d’administration. Ces nominations incluent Zein Abdalla, ancien Président de PepsiCo, Inc. ; l’Honorable Baronesse Valerie Amos, Directrice de l’École des Études Orientales et Africaines de l’Université…

TORONTO, Canada, 21 June 2017 ,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The MasterCard Foundation today announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors. They include Zein Abdalla, former President of PepsiCo, Inc.; Rt. Honorable Baroness Valerie Amos, Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the…

About half of South Sudan’s population are facing severe food shortages as its three-year civil war drags on. And that means easily preventable diseases are becoming fatal in the country. More than two million cases of malaria and 1,000 deaths from it – the biggest cause of death there –…