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ADF STAFF When it comes to pandemic diseases, the African continent has been forged in fire. History is replete with examples of deadly illnesses originating on the continent and ravaging populations in nation after nation. Some, such…

ADF STAFF Heads of state are accustomed to welcoming visitors. They entertain foreign officials with frequency, rolling out red carpets and assembling military honor guards adorned in their finest uniforms.  But not all visitors come…

ADF STAFF The Mitchells Plain neighborhood sits along the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, in a section called Cape Flats. It is a part of the city known for its notorious street gangs, who violently clash with each other and…

ADF STAFF | Photos by AFP/Getty Images Early in the 2018 Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), contact tracers used paper forms, filling them out each day for every contact made. At the end of the day,…

ADF STAFF The movie version of organized crime typically depicts heavily armed Latin American drug cartels or Italian Mafia groups that run extortion rackets.  True organized crime is more sophisticated, diverse and widespread than…

Dr. Tarek A. Sharif was appointed executive director of the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation (AFRIPOL) in May 2017. Before that he served as head of the Defence and Security Division in the Peace and Security Department of…