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‘Safe City’ Tech Could Lead to Loss of Privacy
ADF STAFF
Above the busy streets of Kampala, Nairobi and other cities, closed-circuit cameras keep an unwavering watch on the people moving beneath them.
The cameras are part of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei’s Safe City…
Morocco Touts Counterterrorism Success
ADF STAFF
May 16, 2003, is etched in the minds of many Moroccans. It was the day that five coordinated suicide bombings killed 43 people in Casablanca and shattered the security of a nation.
Ten days later, Parliament passed stringent…
Open Records Help Combat Illegal Fishing
ADF STAFF
Illegal fishing robs nations of natural wealth and leads to food insecurity, but African countries have the tools to fight back.
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) issued a report detailing ways countries can combat…
Loan Conditions Tie African Borrowers’ Hands
ADF STAFF
Running from Mombasa to Nairobi, Kenya’s controversial Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has come to represent everything that can go wrong with African nations’ complex and sometimes covert financial ties with China.
As African…
Beninese Navy, Sea Shepherd Arrest Industrial Trawler
ADF STAFF
Armed members of Benin’s Navy have arrested an industrial trawler for illegally fishing in an area reserved for artisanal fishermen. Sea Shepherd Global, which works with several West African countries to eradicate illegal,…
Boko Haram Continues to Recruit Children
ADF STAFF
With shots ringing out in the dead of night, a group of villagers and refugees were running away from a camp for displaced people when they saw a young girl in pain on the ground.
They asked her to join them. She refused.…