Defense & Security

CYRUS OMBATI, THE STAR Kenya has nearly fulfilled one of its commitments to regional and international treaties on arms control as it nears completion of marking official firearms and ammunition.  The National Police Service has…

ADF STAFF Authorities seized 3,000 rifles, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and antitank missiles from a fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman on January 15, 2023. The Iranian weapons were destined for the Houthi militia in Yemen. Eleven…

ADF STAFF The Tanzania Navy deployed a vessel in the Mozambique Channel to help the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and international partners address an array of sea crimes, including illegal fishing, drug smuggling, oil…

ADF STAFF | photos by U.S. NAVY Divers from the U.S. Navy and the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) spent up to eight hours a day in December 2022 removing the wreckage of the Oceans Bounty, a ship that sank in 2018. The Seychelles Police…

GHANA NAVY Ghana has joined an international network of navies that share select unclassified information related to merchant shipping.  On November 8, 2022, the Ghana Navy signed onto the Virtual-Regional Maritime Traffic Centre and…

ADF STAFF Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed to create a regional force to intervene when member nations are faced with violent extremism or in the event of coups. The move is intended to “take…