SpaceX rocket explosion destroys Facebook’s first satellite
Facebook’s first satellite that was designed to improve internet connectivity in rural Africa was destroyed when a SpaceX rocket exploded during fueling at Cape Canaveral yesterday. No one was injured in the event that Cape Canaveral authorities say posed no public threat. Facebook’s owner Mark Zuckerberg, currently on his first visit to Africa, has been […]
UN and US urge calm and constitutionality in Gabon
At least three people have died and more than 1 000 people have been arrested in the violence following the re-election of Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba. Jean Ping who narrowly lost the poll has gone into hiding after a military helicopter straffed his opposition party headquarters. The United Nations Security Council and U.S. State […]