San Francisco, United States | AFP |  Google is acquiring Twitter’s mobile application developer platform Fabric, a move which could give some breathing room for the social network after charting an independent path without a suitor. Terms of the deal were not announced. Twitter last year was in talks to …

Banjul, Gambia | AFP | Senegalese troops backed by other African forces were poised to move into The Gambia late Wednesday as President Yahya Jammeh’s army chief said his troops would not fight their entry into the country. Jammeh was given a midnight deadline to stand down or face military …

San Francisco, United States | AFP |  Netflix added a record seven million subscribers over the past quarter as part of its global expansion drive, fueling a surge in revenue and profit for the streaming television giant. California-based Netflix said in its quarterly report Wednesday it ended the year with …

Gambia army chief says troops will not fight intervention Banjul, Gambia | AFP |  Gambia’s army chief said Wednesday he would not order his men to fight other African troops if they enter Gambian territory, speaking as Senegalese and other troops massed on his nation’s borders. The Senegalese troops backed …

Banjul, Gambia | AFP |  He is quiet, understated and until recently unknown, but Adama Barrow — an Arsenal supporter who was once a security guard in London — has become the flagbearer for a new era of change in The Gambia. The 51-year-old won an election seven weeks ago …

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a world without nuclear weapons at the UN on Wednesday and urged a multilateral system based on equality among nations large and small. His speech at the United Nations in Geneva came at the end of a diplomatic tour …

New York, United States | AFP | The prospect of a Hillary Clinton comeback after her shock loss to Donald Trump could hardly be less certain, but in New York where she is revered, plenty of people dream of her running for mayor. Her public appearances since the election have …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP |  The UN said Wednesday it had no confirmation of an incursion into Democratic Republic of Congo by scores of rebels sheltering in Uganda, but that it was “ready to engage” if it were the case. The DRC government said Sunday that at least 230 …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenyan and Rwandan authorities said Wednesday they had banned poultry products from neighbouring Uganda, where a virulent H5 strain of avian flu has broken out. “The government banned importation of poultry and poultry products from Uganda with immediate effect,” said Kenya’s agriculture cabinet secretary Willy …

Cameroon close on last eight as Aubameyang, Gabon held again FT – Gabon 1 Burkina Faso 1; Guinea-Bissau 1 Cameroon 2 Libreville, Gabon | AFP | Cameroon closed in on the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations by beating Guinea-Bissau 2-1 on Wednesday while hosts Gabon were left still waiting …