2021

STORY AND PHOTO BY SENIOR AIRMAN TAYLOR DAVIS/U.S. AIR FORCE Modern security partnerships rely on the ability to collect, store and share information safely. Improving information security and interoperability was the goal of a…

ADF STAFF For several years, Uganda has offered to help its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), fight a bloodthirsty band of Islamist militants based in its restive northeast region. The group, known as the Allied…

ADF STAFF Ghana has implemented a co-management strategy among fisheries stakeholders to protect the livelihoods of artisanal fishermen, conserve fish stocks and combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The policy…

ADF STAFF The year 2021 in Africa will be remembered like 2020 was — the year of COVID-19. But there were other big stories in 2021 in Africa, the world’s fastest-growing continent. MILITARY COUPS — Over the past two decades, Africa…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Nigerien police seized a record 17 metric tons of cannabis resin worth about $37 million in a shipment originating in Lebanon and bound for Libya, the nation’s anti-drug trafficking agency said. The drugs had…

VOICE OF AMERICA Human Guinea worm cases in six African countries dropped to 27 in 2020, about 50% less than what was recorded the year before, despite COVID-19 challenges. Animal cases fell by 20% over the same period. The figures…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS At first, the satellite images appear to be of gray blobs in a forest of green splotches. But on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering among the trees. Scientists are using these…

As East Africa has endured one of the worst locust invasions in 70 years, a Kenyan company is fighting back — by treating the voracious insects as a cash crop. The infestation began in Kenya in late 2019 after a series of unusual weather…

ADF STAFF The African Union has launched a website to monitor threats against journalists to protect them and support a free press. The International Federation of Journalists reports that six African journalists were killed in 2020.…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The Nigerian government has approved the creation of a company to fast-track development of critical infrastructure, with $2.6 billion in initial financing. In 2020, Africa’s most-populous country slipped into…