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In which continent a user is less likely to be the victim of a malicious attack? According to the research laboratory of AVG free antivirus maker, is South America, with Brazil being in 98th position (one in 155 chance of being infected). Countries in the question, the navigations are the safest place in Sierra Leone (one in 696), Nigeria (one in 442) [...]

Angola is poised to become the darling of the global oil industry. Although the country is a ‘corrupt, underdeveloped and war-scarred country’ and ‘one of the poorest lands on earth,’ it is a place of vast natural resources and immense potential wealth. Oil and diamonds comprise 99 percent of Angola’s exports. It has also been inviting foreign [...]

Radical Islamists have moved beyond Algeria where the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is principally based. These militants have now found support among the Saharan citizens of Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. It has been observed that al-Qaeda rebel movement has been ‘increasingly threatening Africa’s Sahara belt, scaring away investors [...]

Cassava is touted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the savior of Africa, being a staple food of more than half a billion of the world’s poorest people. The crop augurs well in the continent because it is basically drought-resistant. But one of the most important foods on the planet is becoming increasingly toxic due to carbon [...]

The campaign using the strategy of deleting the ‘S’ from the Shell logo to underscore the evils that the energy provider has done through the decades is not new. It was also done back in the last days of Apartheid in South Africa when ‘Shell was banned in Europe by a lot of people because of the wrong choices they made.’ Now, Amnesty International [...]

Islamic militants have struck at three places in northern Nigeria and nearly 150 people have been killed in this widespread violence which has rocked Nigeria for last couple of days. Maiduguri, Borno State is worst hit. These Islamic militants are followers of the preacher Mohammed Yusuf who is opposed to western education. They have been attacking [...]

Islamist groups launched new attacks against security forces in northern Nigeria, a day after nearly 40 people died in bloody clashes between police and a radical Islamic group in Bauchi. The BBC also reported a tally of ‘100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State, where hundreds are fleeing their homes.’ [...]

According to the Minority Rights Group International (MRG) that trends annual indexes, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan have been topping annual lists for four straight years of countries where genocide, mass killings, or violent repression victimizes the minority population. The human rights group gives a more chilling conclusion: countries [...]

According to Amnesty International (AI), the oil pollution in the Niger Delta has deprived tens of millions of people from their most fundamental right to food, water, and health. In a thick report, AI describes the environmental degradation in the delta where about 31 million people live. The group calls it a tragedy of human rights that has fueled [...]

Drug trafficking on an industrial scale is happening in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The country is said to be the African gateway for European and South American cocaine. The country has also been ravaged by poverty, civil war (1998-1999) and a national culture of political murder. It is also said that regional distribution of Guinea-Bissau cocaine [...]