August 2024

ADF STAFF Violent extremism from the Sahel has been spreading closer to Ghana’s northern border over the last five years. Mataru Mumuni Muqthar, executive director of the West Africa Centre for Counter-Extremism (WACCE) in Accra, said…

ADF STAFF As both sides of Sudan’s civil war fight to control el-Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur, the city’s hospitals and patients are in the crossfire. El-Fasher’s last functioning public hospital, Saudi Hospital, was…

ADF STAFF Mozambique has eclipsed other African countries as China’s primary supplier of rosewood, a material coveted for its use in expensive furniture. Mozambique shipped 20,000 metric tons of the internationally protected timber to…

ADF STAFF Security threats have grown steadily since Niger’s military seized control of the government in July 2023. While multiple terrorist groups have increased their attacks in the west, rebels and bandits in the east now threaten the…

ADF STAFF The Botswana Defence Force and United States military came together in August for Southern Accord 24, a 10-day biennial joint exercise designed to improve the ability of the two forces to work together in peacekeeping,…

ADF STAFF The Tunisian Air Force has bolstered its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capacity with the delivery of two Textron C-208B Grand Caravan EX aircraft. Tunisia is scheduled to receive a total of four of the…

ADF STAFF With bows, slingshots and spears in hand, the young villagers advanced in a line through a forest in the town of Pala in southwest Chad. As the early morning light sifted through the trees, some crawled through the undergrowth…

ADF STAFF Terrorists in Benin’s W National Park have killed at least seven Beninese security forces and five rangers working with a nonprofit organization. No terror group claimed responsibility for the July 28 attack near Benin’s…

ADF STAFF Thirty years after genocide killed hundreds of thousands of its people, Rwanda launched the Isōko Peace Institute to help communities worldwide learn to live in harmony. The announcement was made during a three-day peace…

ADF STAFF Fighters from the Oromo Liberation Army rebel group took a woman named Alemetu from her home in Ethiopia’s Oromia region as she tried to sleep. She was taken to an abandoned school where 40 OLA fighters lived and was held…