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RSF Conquest in Sennar Opens Path to Key Territories in Eastern Sudan
ADF STAFF
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have added Sennar state, a key agricultural region, to their zone of control as they sweep through the southern parts of the country with little resistance from the rival Sudanese Armed Forces…
Warring Sides in Sudan Use Access to Food as a Weapon
ADF STAFF
Of all the weapons at their disposal, Sudan’s two warring generals have turned in recent months to one that is cheap, familiar and devastating: starvation.
“Both the SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) and the RSF (Rapid Support Forces)…
Terror Attacks Increase in Togo as Sahel Extremists Encroach
ADF STAFF
Violent extremist organizations from northern Benin and Burkina Faso are increasingly targeting northern Togo as conflicts from the Sahel spill into coastal countries.
Four people on a tricycle in the north-central town of…
Potent New Drugs a Growing Concern Across Africa
ADF STAFF
Ernest Fornah, 32, is among Sierra Leone’s growing number of kush addicts. He smokes the drug four times a day and often can be found sitting with other users on streets and alleyways in Freetown, the capital.
“These drugs are…
Community Engagement Can Help Police Stave Off Extremism
ADF STAFF
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia is prioritizing community policing techniques as it prepares Somali security forces to assume full control of the country when the mission exits in December 2024.
The mission,…
Resilient Al-Shabaab Recruits East African Fighters as ATMIS Exits Somalia
ADF STAFF
Thick white smoke billowed over the rooftops and power lines at a military base housing Djiboutian troops attached to the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS).
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the June 30…