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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE U.S. military personnel will spend two months training Soldiers in Mozambique to help the country fight an extremist insurgency in the northeast. Insurgents have launched regular attacks in the gas-rich Cabo…

REUTERS Uganda launched a rapid COVID-19 antibody test that developers hope can help doctors track the virus more widely across Africa. The test, which requires a finger prick to draw blood, was developed by a team at Makerere, Uganda’s…

ADF STAFF There was a thunderous blast, flames shot into the sky and a dark cloud of smoke formed over a tree line near a military base in Equatorial Guinea. Then came another explosion. And another. More than 100 people were…

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…

VOICE OF AMERICA Human Guinea worm cases in six African countries dropped to 27 in 2020, about 50% less than what was recorded the year before, despite COVID-19 challenges. Animal cases fell by 20% over the same period. The figures…