Defense & Security

STORY AND PHOTO BY SENIOR AIRMAN TAYLOR DAVIS/U.S. AIR FORCE Modern security partnerships rely on the ability to collect, store and share information safely. Improving information security and interoperability was the goal of a…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Nigerien police seized a record 17 metric tons of cannabis resin worth about $37 million in a shipment originating in Lebanon and bound for Libya, the nation’s anti-drug trafficking agency said. The drugs had…

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…