2024

THE EAST AFRICAN Security chiefs in East and Southern Africa believe new technology and a shared approach are needed to combat arms smuggling.  Delegates from 26 African countries gathered in Nairobi in March 2024 for a regional…

ADF STAFF The Islamic State group (IS) has turned to cryptocurrencies to move money from places such as Somalia and South Africa to fighters elsewhere on the continent. Private donations, known as “sadaqah” in Arabic, make up one of…

ADF STAFF Retired Brig. Gen. Geraldine George was confirmed as Liberia’s minister of defense in April 2024, marking the first time a woman has held the position. George enlisted in the Army in 2006 after the end of the country’s civil…

ADF STAFF The Tanzania Peoples Defence Forces has received two renovated laboratory buildings that will help the country in its fight against HIV/AIDS. The U.S. President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest…

ADF STAFF The Senegalese Armed Forces (SAF) launched an operation on land, river and air in February 2024 to restore security to the far east of the country, which borders Mali. The operation, known as Sentinelle Est, dismantled illegal…

Late 2023 saw a surge in intercommunal conflict in parts of South Sudan, resulting in 862 instances of death, injury, abduction and conflict-related sexual violence, according to a United Nations peacekeeping mission. The U.N. Mission in…

The African Union, by way of its Peace and Security Council, has endorsed a Southern African Development Community decision to deploy troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to restore peace and security in the eastern part of the…

ADF STAFF The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces explosive devices team started 2024 by clearing improvised explosive devices (IED) on the major Lower Shabelle Shalambot/Ceeljale supply route as part of the African Union Transition Mission…

ADF Staff The Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams completed its participation in Exercise Sea Lion 2024 alongside the Ghana Navy in the Gulf of Guinea in March 2024. The ship, known as the HWW,…

DEFENCEWEB A group of South African Soldiers attached to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have another skill set, jungle warfare, thanks to training offered by Brazilian specialists.…