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A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near Somalia's presidential palace Saturday, killing eight people, police said, as the Al-Shabaab jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
A Nigeria Railways Corporation official said the train departs Ibadan for Lagos at 8am daily with a return trip scheduled at 4pm.
The Lagos-Ibadan expressway is notorious for heavy trucks and traffic gridlocks that can stretch for several kilometres.
The Lagos-Ibadan line is the first part of a new 2,733km Lagos-Kano standard gauge line. The total cost of the project was valued at $11.117bn.
With its rows of sleek computers and ultra-modern study methods, Morocco's 1337 campus is a dream come true for budding geeks, in a country where IT skills are in high demand.
Conceived as a paradise for coders, the centre offers project-based training on programming, innovation and building IT systems. Tuition is free and students largely create their own curricula.
It all happens on a 24-hour campus reminiscent of Silicon Valley, complete with a canteen, graffiti art on the walls and games rooms offering swings and table football.
\"It's too beautiful to be true,\" said Ismail El Mheki, who initially struggled to drag himself away from his screen to answer questions.
On discovering the institute, which ran its first courses in 2018, he thought it was a trick -- so his reaction was to hack the system. But today, the slightly stooping 22-year-old is gushing.
\"Everything here is incredible, starting with the teaching,\" he said.
A self-declared \"ethical hacker\" (\"white hat\" in geek speak), Mheki taught himself with resources found in dark corners of the internet. He dropped out of school before his final exams, much to his parents' dismay. \"Everything bored me at school,\" he said.
But after two years in Norway working for a cybersecurity firm, he took the entry test for 1337 and passed with flying colours. Before he had even finished his course, he was offered a job as part of the school's IT security team.
\"He's very strong, much stronger than an old man like me,\" said Youssef Dahbi, the school's technical chief -- who is in his 30s. \"Cybersecurity is constantly evolving, so skills quickly become obsolete.\"
- 'Invisible youth' -
Morocco's phosphate giant OCP decided to set up the 1337 campus, converting a disused factory in the central mining town of Khouribga in a bid to address the country's severe need for tech expertise.
The name of the centre comes from a system of modified spellings known as Leet Speak or \"1337 5P34K\", used by hackers and gamers to show their \"elite\" status in online communities.
The institute works closely with 42, a French programming school created in 2013 by telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel and highly regarded in the tech world.
The idea is to attract \"the invisible youth, misunderstood geeks who don't fit into the system and have developed rare skills on their own\", said director Larbi El Hilali.
Fatima Zahra Karouach, one of the women who make up just 10 percent of the students, said the school was like \"a big family\". \"We have the same state of mind, the same lifestyle,\" she said.
Karouach quit her first job as an industrial engineer, and now at the age of 29, she is enjoying her freedom. \"No office hours, no constraints, no judgement,\" she said. \"In the city, everyone knows that 1337 people are different.\"
Karouach's Moroccan comrade Mohamed Aymane Farmi, who calls himself a \"mathematician passionate about algorithms\", has a similar story.
The 24-year-old joined 1337 after quitting preparatory classes for the entry exam for a prestigious \"old-fash
By Chuck Chandler Alabama Newscenter Brother Bryan Mission of Birmingham has completed the second-largest purchase in its 80-year history, paying $340,000 for a neighboring building in an effort to soon provide beds for 100 men. The city’s oldest mission currently is able to house 76 men for its addiction recovery and back-to-work programs, said Executive Director […]
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] New York -- Many shipping and transport workers have been at sea as long as 17 months or longer, due to COVID-19-related restrictions
Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats are outraged that a witness invited to testify before a congressional hearing on Tuesday is being given a public platform for her discredited ideas that could endanger the US response to thecoronavirus pandemic. They say Dr. Jane Orient is a vaccine skeptic […]
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Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland are emerging as the leading contenders to be nominated... View Article
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The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is scheduled to return in 2021, after the COVID-19 forced its cancellation earlier this year, organizers said Tuesday. The March event was abruptlycanceled less than two weeks after it beganafter news of 14 presumed positive cases of COVID-19 in Greater Houston, and evidence of community spread in Montgomery County […]
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[FAO] Rome/New York -- Director-General spoke at UN Central Emergency Response Fund annual pledging event
Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average, matching the frightening peak reached last April, and cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first time on record, with the crisis all but certain to get worse because of the fallout from Thanksgiving, Christmas and […]
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Analysis - The camaraderie between a group of around 50 Somaliland soldiers, formed while fighting in the French army in the Second World War, sowed the seeds of what is today the country's breadbasket. Seventy-five years later, the fertile farmlands of Arabsiyo, nicknamed the \"French village\", remain a centre of French connection.
RESIDENTS in Westmoreland may face stricter COVID-19 regulations as the surging number of novel coronavirus infections there threaten to wipe out months of gains against the scourge on the island.
There were allegedly no mask-wearing, distancing.
[Monitor] Health centres and hospitals across the country are running out of space for covid-19 patients as cases keep surging, Daily Monitor investigations reveals.
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Isabel dos Santos may be Africa's richest woman but she's just lost another legal battle, this time in the British Virgin Islands.
The Angolan businesswoman targeted in the \"Luanda leaks\" owned 25% of Unitel, Angola's telecommunications operator, which was registered under Vidatel in the British Virgin Islands.
According to a statement by PT Ventures, the supreme court decided, on 19 November, following a lawsuit, to set up judicial administrators for the management of specific assets of Vidatel, Limited, one of Isabel dos Santos's companies registered in the Virgin Islands, transferring to the management all bank accounts held and/or controlled by Vidatel.
The directors will also now control the 25% participation, including the rights inherent to such participation.
The Paris Arbitration Court ordered the \"founding shareholders\" of that telecommunications company to pay PT Ventures two indemnities totalling 654.2 million dollars (568.8 million euros).
The decision was disclosed at the time by Unitel, according to which the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) ordered the company to pay compensation of US$339.4 million (295.1 million euros) and US$314.8 million (273.7 million euros).
Meanwhile, Unitel began legal proceedings in London last month against Unitel International Holdings (UIH), owned by Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, to recover a debt of over 350 million euros.
Dos Santos has been accused of embezzlement and money laundering by prosecutors in Angola.
Leaked documents showed how she got access to lucrative land, oil, diamond and telecoms deals when her father was president. They also show how Western firms helped her take her money out of Angola.
She has denied the accusations and alleged corruption revealed by leaked documents. Her fortune is believed to be $2.1 bn.
Rapper and mogul Rick Ross has teamed up with the telehealth company Jetdoc to spread awareness about the importance of affordable healthcare.
