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The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is a peacekeeping operation established at the time of South Sudan’s independence in July 2011. In January 2017, David Shearer of New Zealand became head of the mission and served for more…

ADF STAFF For 11 days in June, 7,800 participants from African nations, the United States and NATO countries trained together on land, sea and in the air as part of African Lion. African Lion is U.S. Africa Command’s (AFRICOM’s)…

ADF STAFF The leaders of Uganda and Tanzania recently approved a new Chinese-backed pipeline to transport oil from the continent’s interior more than 1,400 kilometers to the Indian Ocean. Environmentalists say the project threatens…

ADF STAFF Sierra Leone’s plan to build a $55 million industrial fishing harbor on 100 hectares of beach and protected rainforests continues to cause controversy among fishermen and conservationists. The Chinese-backed project at Black…

ADF STAFF Residents of Senegal’s restive Casamance region are voicing hope after a military offensive drove rebels out of forest strongholds. In January, the Senegalese Armed Forces launched a campaign in the southern region to root…

ADF STAFF “In cooperation there is strength.” That was the message Tunisian Navy Chief of Staff Adm. Adel Jehane took from this year’s Phoenix Express, a multinational maritime exercise involving every coastal nation in North Africa.…