Defense & Security

U.N. MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN Chief Inspector Doreen Mazuba Malambo of Zambia believes in a simple motto: “When you teach a woman, you teach a nation.” She has brought that wisdom to more than a decade of service in peacekeeping…

ADF STAFF The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is improving its ability to investigate, arrest and prosecute criminals, including those who traffic illicit goods.   The NAF graduated 15 people from the Advanced Crime Scene Investigation…

ADF STAFF A pilot project by Chad’s Armed Forces aims to create a self-sustaining food supply for the military by developing farms on military outposts. Graduates of the Chadian Army Farm School started the first on-base farm at the…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE About 70 armed groups have agreed to a cease-fire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) South Kivu province, a flashpoint in the country’s troubled east. “All the armed groups of South Kivu agree to a…

ADF STAFF Sudan and South Sudan have signed a joint defense and military cooperation agreement, the latest indication of improved relations between the two countries. The deal will allow the countries to work together on issues such as…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Troops from Niger have freed 11 villagers, four of them children, who had been seized by Boko Haram extremists and taken across the border into Nigeria. “The hostages were freed by our troops on the Nigerian side…