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MONUSCO Joint patrols between the U.N. Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and Congolese security forces have resumed in Goma and its outskirts after being suspended in the wake of violent…

ADF STAFF Kenya was among seven African nations to receive an array of equipment from the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) to help fishing inspectors battle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Delivered in December 2022,…

U.S. AFRICA COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS U.S. Special Operations Forces have conducted a civil affairs joint combined exchange training alongside the Tanzania Marine Special Forces in Dar es Salaam. The monthlong training let the U.S. and…

DEFENCEWEB France and South Africa, which share a maritime exclusive economic zone (EEZ) border, have completed the biennial Exercise Oxide. France and South Africa share one geographical area of interest, the southern Indian Ocean…

ADF STAFF The Maravi kingdom, which took up parts of what are now Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and eastern Zimbabwe, was a vibrant society of skilled administrators, ivory traders, healers, sages and metallurgists. It began with the tribes…

CLUES Ibadi Muslims established a community in this region in the 10th century. Five fortified villages, or ksour, constitute walled citadels that contain a mosque surrounded by houses built in concentric circles. Mosques here…

ADF STAFF The increasing violence between Sudan’s warring generals has prompted some experts to call for the African Union (AU) to step in with a “boots-on-the-ground” approach through its African Standby Force. “Considering the…

ADF STAFF The sounds of airstrikes, artillery and small-arms fire reverberate through the streets of Khartoum and Omdurman on opposite sides of the Nile as war persists in Sudan with no end in sight. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF),…

ADF STAFF Piracy is drastically declining in the Gulf of Guinea, but experts say more can be done to eliminate the threat. The number of piracy incidents in the region fell from 81 in 2020 to 34 in 2021, when the Gulf of Guinea also…

ADF STAFF Joyous singing and dancing punctuated a June 23 ceremony in Maputo to celebrate the end of a dark era in Mozambique’s history. Dancers symbolically exchanged wooden props, replacing assault rifles with shovels and hoes.…