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ADF STAFF Photos by reuters When the Ebola virus emerged in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2013-2014, West Africa — and the world — was caught unprepared. More than 11,300 people died in the outbreak, which spread into urban areas…

Africa’s Smallest Nation Is Setting a Standard for Safe, Sustainable Seas ADF STAFF As the six Seychellois crew members of the fishing boat Galate slept at sea southeast of Mahé Island, they should have had little more to fear than…

Complex Laws and Limited Resources Make it Hard to Bring Criminals to Justice ADF STAFF The guilty verdict handed down in a São Tomé and Príncipe courtroom echoed across the globe.  A Chilean captain and two Spanish crew members of…

Air Force Contributes to Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia ADF STAFF The residents of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, a lakeside town 25 kilometers south of the capital city, are accustomed to the rumble of jets taking off and landing at the…

ADF STAFF The U.S. Navy once analyzed data and concluded that, in theory, a C-130 Hercules transport plane could carry 25,000 pounds of freight, fly for 4,000 kilometers and eventually land on an aircraft carrier. On October 30, 1963,…

MAJ. RYAN McCAUGHAN  In 1910, in the American town of Gulfport, Mississippi, a young boy named John Robinson witnessed a seaplane landing in a bay near his home. As the boy saw the pilot perform an array of aerial acrobatics for the…

The country’s military wants to play a larger role in maintaining security in East Africa ADF STAFF When military forces from Africa, Europe and the United States conducted the seventh Cutlass Express maritime exercise in 2018, they…

Security at Sea Must Consider an Array of Issues, From the Environment to Economics ADF STAFF There was a time when a country’s maritime strategy consisted of its navy or coast guard protecting its waters, defending citizens from…

Half a century after the historic trial at which Nelson Mandela escaped the gallows, one of his fellow former prisoners walked the Cannes red carpet on the French Riviera for the premiere of a documentary about those with him in the dock.…

President Danny Faure of the Seychelles spoke for island nations around the world by calling for action to clean up the ocean. He spoke at the Group of Seven (G7) meeting in Quebec, Canada, and displayed photographs of plastic waste piling…