Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Africa Mobile Market Now Second Only to Asia

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The first GSMA Mobile Observatory report to focus on Africa has come back with some fascinating conclusions. First among them, Africa has passed Latin America to become the world's second largest mobile market.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Industry says Africa fastest growing mobile market

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Africa is the world's fastest growing mobile phone market and soon poised to have 735 million people using their phones for everything from transferring money to tracking animals for wildlife studies, an industry group said Wednesday.

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Monday, September 5, 2011

World War II: The North African Campaign (Photos)

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Beginning in June of 1940, the North African Campaign took place over the course of three years, as Axis and Allied forces pushed each other back and forth across the desert in a series of attacks and counterattacks. Libya had been an Italian colony for several decades and British forces had been in neighboring Egypt since 1882. When Italy declared war on the Allied Nations in 1940, the two armies began skirmishing almost immediately. An Italian invasion of Egypt in September of 1940 was followed by a December counterattack where British and Indian forces captured some 130,000 Italians.

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