Defense & Security

VOICE OF AMERICA Cameroon’s military arrested several dozen men and destroyed hundreds of handmade guns circulating on the northern border with Chad and Nigeria. In a public event, a military compactor crushed more than 2,500 guns,…

ADF STAFF A joint rescue team from the Cameroonian Navy and its Rapid Intervention Battalion oil field protection group saved more than 100 people after a shipwreck. A storm caused a ferry, the Austerheim, to capsize near the island of…

VOICE OF AMERICA Gen. Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has been named commander of the Somali National Army (SNA). At 32, he is the youngest person to hold the title. He attended military training in Uganda and became an instructor to new recruits. He…

ADF STAFF Nigeria is making progress in deradicalizing former Boko Haram fighters.  The plan known as Operation Safe Corridor was unveiled in 2015 at a Nigerian National Security Council meeting when the government offered former Boko…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Senior military officers from five African Great Lakes countries met to discuss strategies to respond to violence plaguing the region. Senior officers from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),…

ADF STAFF After a three-day meeting between African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) commanders and Somali National Army leaders, the two sides believe they are on track to transfer security responsibilities to local control.  Under…