In a first, the African Land Forces Summit was held in Europe and included representatives…
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Chadian President Mahamat Déby has ordered his military to retaliate against attacks originating in Sudan…
A new report documents the huge scale of illegal activity by Chinese “floating fish factories”…
Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorists and Yemen’s Houthi militants have long been known to cooperate across the…
Coastal West African countries are strengthening counterterrorism partnerships after the 2025 rupture with Sahelian nations…
Nine months after Russia replaced and rebranded its mercenaries in Mali as Africa Corps, the…
A disagreement between Kenya and Somalia continues over a 92,389-square-kilometer maritime zone that has long…
Opioids and other synthetic drugs are increasingly invading parts of Africa, attracting organized crime and…
A global study has concluded that Burkina Faso in West Africa is now the country…
When deadly floods swept through Gabarone, Botswana, in February 2025, the Botswana Defence Force swung…
Gen. Charles Muriu Kahariri, Kenya’s chief of the defense forces, gave the opening remarks at…