Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram increasingly resembles the Lord’s Resistance Army, which wreaked havoc in northern Uganda and South Sudan for decades. And, as with the LRA, national authorities and the international community have been slow to respond to the threat to regional stability that Boko Haram represents.

Watsons, the health and beauty retail chain under Hutchison Whampoa, announced that the company has reached an agreement with Dutch pharmacy chain Dirx to acquire the 50 existing pharmacies of the latter as well as opening five new ones. This is reportedly Watsons' first major acquisition over the past ten years and it is considered […]