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Women Bring Value to Peacekeeping Missions, but Participation Hurdles Remain ADF STAFF Cpl. Laker Doris Patricia of the Ugandan People’s Defence Force drove a large supply truck every day. She carried everything from bullets to bombs.…

Public and private interests team up to build a new kind of training facility in Cape Verde ADF STAFF Cape Verde would seem to be an unlikely location for an international military training center. The 10 islands comprising the nation…

ADF STAFF After becoming Ghana’s first skeleton racer in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, Akwasi Frimpong is planning to compete in the 2022 Olympics in China. Frimpong, 32, lived in a one-room home in Ghana until he was 8,…

VOICE OF AMERICA One of 2018’s biggest films premiered for African audiences in February in the Kenyan hometown of one of the film’s stars, actress Lupita Nyong’o. Based on a Marvel superhero comic, Black Panther is set in a fictional,…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS An ancient necropolis containing dozens of stone coffins and a necklace bearing a “message from the afterlife” has been discovered in Egypt. The site near the city of Minya, south of Cairo, is more than…

REUTERS The European Union plans to rapidly expand the training of Libyan Coast Guard personnel to stem migrant flows to Italy and to reduce deaths at sea. Rear Adm. Enrico Credendino, chief of the EU naval mission in the…

GHANA NEWS AGENCY Security professionals in Ghana and their counterparts from U.S. Africa Command held a forum to better prepare for disasters. The event focused on the capabilities of the military, police, fire service, National…

DEFENCEWEB Germany has given five patrol boats to the Nigerian Navy, which will use them to patrol Lake Chad and coastal creeks and deltas. The boats will be used, in part, to combat Boko Haram terrorists who have staged attacks around…

DEFENCEWEB The Kenyan government has asked Parliament to pass a bill to establish the Kenya Coast Guard Service, a maritime security force that would operate on the high seas to prevent maritime crimes such as robbery, piracy and…

ADF STAFF A group of Chadians has founded a center dedicated to the study and prevention of violent extremism and the deradicalization of jihadists. This founders of the center in N’Djamena, Chad, hope it will become a research and…