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ADF STAFF Mohamed Znagui Sid’Ahmed Ely knows the security challenges of the Sahel well. A former brigadier general in the…

ADF STAFF There’s a fantastic amount of gold to be found in the Sahel. In addition to the region’s large-scale…

ADF STAFF As the sun set on the final day of Ramadan, a muezzin called faithful Muslims to prayer. They…

ADF STAFF Abubakar Shekau had cheated death before. Several times since the brutal Boko Haram leader took control of the…

ADF STAFF Students at the Government Science College in Nigeria’s Niger State were sleeping one night in February 2021 when…

ADF STAFF It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday when the calm of night in a Burkinabe village was interrupted…

Affectionately called the “Baba of Africa” or “Africa’s father,” Olusegun Obasanjo has spent time as a military officer, statesman, peacemaker…

ADF STAFF Arab Spring protests swept across North Africa and the Middle East in the early 2010s as citizens rose…

BY DR. HUMPHREY ASAMOAH AGYEKUM Photos by AFP/GETTY IMAGES In Africa, military interventions in politics are an ever-present threat. In recent…

Tanzanian Cpl. Ali Khamis Omary was serving in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,…