This week, Al-Shabaab turned to Twitter to promote its messages.

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34 articles/posts from the past two days. Updates from Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Somalia, and Rwanda.

For terrorists, the Internet is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it eases the flow of dissent. At the same time, governments and security forces have a new means to intercept illicit transmissions.

Originally posted at the Global Broadband and Innovations portal by Jeffrey Swindle (Twitter: @jeffswin, email: jeffswin@gmail.com)
I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago about a series of ways that Somalia could get broadband Internet connectivity.  The article was reposted in several British, Somali and Kenyan online newspapers and was …

Plenty of positive mobile news (m-learning, social, Android, LTE, Google), and news of general African opportunities