July 2024

Defenceweb Uganda has entered a military cooperation agreement with a country that it shares no border with — the Central African Republic. Ugandan Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs Vincent Ssempijja was reported by the Uganda…

ADF staff As part of what is being called a new generation of peacekeeping missions, the United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to help fund African Union-led peace support operations. U.N.…

ADF STAFF More than 4,000 years ago, the pharaohs of Egypt established a trading partnership with the prosperous Land of Punt. The Egyptians kept the location of the kingdom a secret. They would travel vast distances on land and sea to…

CLUES The Roman Emperor Trajan established this ancient city as a military colony in A.D. 100. It is laid out with precision, illustrating the skill of Roman urban planning. Buildings and homes were built entirely of stone, and…

ADF STAFF No one knows the dangerous, porous borderlands of Kenya and Somalia like its residents, and in the face of increasing terrorist attacks and recruitment, members of the community are coming together to protect themselves. A new…

ADF STAFF Authorities in the Central African Republic revoked a Chinese mining company’s license in the southern town of Mingala in June over concerns it was cooperating with armed militias. The CAR’s mining ministry accused Daqing…

ADF STAFF The Tunisian Armed Forces are upgrading their primary training area at Ben Ghilouf with support from the United States. The upgrade is in its third phase, according to a report from Military Africa. It involves the…

ADF STAFF Four years after fighting ended in the southern suburbs of Tripoli, land mines and booby-trapped explosives continue to maim and kill civilians. Over the past five years, more than 400 people have been killed or injured by…

ADF STAFF Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria killed 20 young men in one of a series of early June attacks in the mountainous Shiroro communities of Niger State. Witnesses in the town of Bassa said Boko Haram fighters attacked in broad…

ADF STAFF Authorities in the Central African Republic found a 19-year-old artisanal miner’s body burned and decapitated in the town of Koki, in the prefecture of Ouham. He was one of at least 20 artisanal miners who were killed in…