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ADF STAFF The restive Tillaberi region of Niger is part of a vast, semiarid tri-border area of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Militants attack small towns and villages just south of the Malian border with alarming frequency. In the…

ADF STAFF The jaws of a debt trap are starting to clamp down on Kenya now that payments are due for an infrastructure project financed by huge Chinese loans. When the Standard Gauge Railway connecting Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and the…

ADF STAFF Ghanaians are proud of their country’s reputation throughout Africa as a pillar of stability. Late in the fall of 2020, they celebrated and reinforced it. Former President Jerry John Rawlings, a mammoth figure in Ghana…

ADF STAFF The industrial fishing trawler Lu Rong Yuan Yu 956 was detained in Ghana in 2019 for using nets with a mesh size below the legal minimum and catching undersized fish. The vessel’s owner was fined more than $1 million but…

ADF STAFF Social media blackouts and internet shutdowns are increasingly common across Africa. In the past five years, at least 15 African nations have shut down the internet during elections, protests or times of crisis. Shutdowns last…

ADF STAFF Cooperative efforts and military professionalism were the topics of U.S. Africa Command’s 2021 gathering of the continent’s chiefs of defense. The conference included 46 defense chiefs or their designees, who met virtually…