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ABIDJAN – Women farmers in Côte d’Ivoire are achieving greater autonomy and economic independence thanks to new varieties of cassava.
Cassava is an important staple food in this West African country according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, second only to yams, a similar starchy tuber.
Denis Slieker, managing director of Face the Future, is in the business of creating these credits and he believes that Africa is the perfect place to do business.
Security agencies have revealed fresh plans by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram to attack selected high profile targets in the federal capital ahead of this weekend’s independence anniversary.
Thousands of victims affected by toxic waste dumping in 2006 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, still have not received the economic compensation they were promised.
A man with alleged links to al-Qaeda is suspected of being behind the bombing of the UN headquarters in Abuja. A secret Nigerian police statement said the man, Mamman Nur, belonged to Islamist group Boko Haram and had recently returned from Somalia. Video by: VOXAFRICA
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