February 2023

ADF STAFF A group of herders were tending to their cattle in a pasture near Airamne village in Nigeria’s restive northeastern borderlands when the shooting began. Boko Haram fighters emerged from their camps in Gajiganna forest on…

ADF STAFF Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s new epicenter for violent extremism, and most people who join extremist organizations said they were motivated by a lack of work, according to a new report by the United Nations Development…

ADF STAFF The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has stoked tensions among Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan for more than a decade as the downstream countries fear the $4.2 billion megaproject will disrupt their water supply. Those concerns…

ADF STAFF To prepare security forces to face a wide range of evolving threats, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo announced that the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) will establish a war college. Established with money from the Ghana Education…

ADF STAFF A new joint investigation has found a prolific Russian disinformation campaign sowing division and spreading propaganda across the continent. A Belgian man with links to dictators and the infamous Russian mercenary Wagner Group…

ADF STAFF Rebel groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) are clashing with Russian Wagner Group mercenaries over access to the country’s mineral-rich mines. Numerous reports indicate a recent upswing in fighting, including an ambush…

ADF STAFF Africa is less safe and less democratic than a decade ago, but there is still hope. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation published the stark conclusions of the latest Ibrahim Index of African Governance on January 25, 2023. But they have…

ADF STAFF Nemes Tarimo was given a choice: fight for Russia’s Wagner Group against Ukraine or face years in a Russian prison. The lure of a pardon was too great for the 37-year-old Tanzania native to decline. Tarimo was an information…

ADF STAFF With more than 600 million people online and millions more soon to join them, African nations face growing demand to safeguard cyberspace against hackers, scammers and extremists. Ghana provides a model for how to do that. In…

ADF STAFF On January 16, the Somali government announced a major victory. Its military had liberated Harardhere, an al-Shabaab stronghold on the Indian Ocean coast that the terrorist group had held for a decade. Formerly a base for…