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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.…

ADF STAFF Cyberattacks cost African governments, companies and citizens an estimated $2.5 billion in 2020. That figure is likely to grow to $3.7 billion in the next few years partly due to a lack of coordinated, continentwide investment…

ADF STAFF Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for an attack that killed six civilians and three Soldiers at the Pearl Beach Hotel restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, in early June. The attack, which started with a bomb blast and ended in…

ADF STAFF As the dust settles after the 36-hour rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group against Vladimir Putin, some observers see parallels to fighting in Sudan. Like Wagner, the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a…

ADF STAFF The Somali government recruited 20,000 Soldiers over the past year to handle security challenges, mainly posed by al-Shabaab, as the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) draws down. ATMIS was scheduled to…

ADF STAFF New reporting shows how the Islamic State group has funded the Allied Democratic Forces for at least four years, leading to an escalating scale of brutality. The report by a United Nations panel of experts outlines the latest…

ADF STAFF Armed men drove Dawoud Adam Ishak from his home in Sudan’s Darfur region. “They came at night when we were sleeping,” Ishak told Voice of America. “So, we woke up and fled.” Ishak joined more than 100,000 Sudanese who…

ADF STAFF Months after a peace deal was signed in Ethiopia, prisoners of war continue to languish behind bars. Some who have been released from detention facilities say they were being held in squalid conditions. New reporting by Al…

ADF STAFF Faced with unrelenting extremist violence and a hostile host government, the United Nations mission in Mali (MINUSMA) announced it will end its mission by the end of the year. In a unanimous vote on June 30, the U.N. Security…