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Building an African Model For Peace
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For decades, the United Nations was the primary institution overseeing peacekeeping missions in…
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Building an African Model For Peace
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For decades, the United Nations was the primary institution overseeing peacekeeping missions in…
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U.S. Africa Command Staff
A Swahili proverb says, “If a snake bites your neighbor, you too are in danger.” The…
‘One Force, One Mission’
Lt. Gen. Francis Omondi Ogolla became chief of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) in April 2023. He spoke October…
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Building an African Model For Peace
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For decades, the United Nations was the primary institution overseeing peacekeeping missions in Africa. But the U.N. hasn’t launched a new mission since 2014, and its missions in Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were forced to shut down amid rising insecurity and host-country resistance.
As the U.N. pulls back, African…
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Accountable to the People They Serve
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A military operation in the town of Garu in northern Ghana left one man dead and dozens hospitalized on October 29, 2023.
The raid drew outrage…
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‘Man Will Fly Forever’
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Lt. Gen. John Mugaravai Omenda was appointed vice chief of the Kenya Defence Forces in May 2024. Prior to that he spent three years as Kenya Air…
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Influence on an Industrial Scale
The Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School in Kibaha, Tanzania, looks like any institution of higher learning on the outside. Its campus shines with newness…
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Harnessing a New Tool
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Africa may have already gotten its first experience with artificial intelligence on the battlefield in mid-2020. That’s when Turkish-made…
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U.N. Peacekeeping Missions Face New Tests
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The past two years have been hard ones for United Nations peacekeepers. The mission in Mali shut down suddenly. The mission in the Democratic…
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The Vigilante Conundrum
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Immediately after Burkina Faso’s National Assembly unanimously approved arming civilian volunteers
to help battle extremists in January 2020, the…
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The Côte d’Ivoire Model for Countering Violent Extremism
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Years of peace in the coastal nation of Côte d’Ivoire were interrupted in 2020 when violent extremist groups in neighboring Burkina Faso began…
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‘Winner-Take-All’
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Omdurman National Bank (ONB) ranks among Sudan’s largest financial institutions. It has branches across most of the…
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