Defense & Security

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…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A Malawian court sentenced members of a trafficking ring to a total of 56 years in prison for selling wildlife parts. The nine convicted traffickers were part of the Lin-Zhang crime syndicate and included seven…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Ivoirian forces captured an extremist leader and a large number of fighters responsible for an attack on a border post. Defence Minister Hamed Bakayoko did not name the suspected terrorist but said he was…

ADF STAFF After a push to recruit and train more female pilots, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) announced it had conducted an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission led entirely by a female team. The mission, which used…

ADF STAFF As desert locusts spread across East Africa in February 2020, Uganda deployed 2,000 Soldiers to battle the pests. Ugandan troops used pesticide on the ground as authorities tried to secure helicopters for aerial spraying.…

ADF STAFF France and several of its allies have announced the formation of a new task force to fight terrorist groups in West Africa’s Sahel region. Thirteen countries are task force members: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark,…