Complex Missions Simple Technology
U.N. Police and Soldiers Can Enhance Peacekeeping With Off-the-Shelf Tools
ADF STAFF
As the summer heat baked the Central African Republic (CAR), tensions between ex-Séléka and Anti-Balaka forces boiled near the town of Kaga-Bandoro in…
The Invisible Wall
Surveillance Technology Helps Secure Border Zones
ADF STAFF
As Tunisia emerges from the most tumultuous period in its history, one thing has become clear: It must secure its borders.
This fact was illustrated during a bloody attack in…
Momentum Builds for Peace in Casamance
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
There is reason for hope in Senegal’s Casamance region. New houses dot a landscape once dominated by abandoned ruins full of bullet holes, though the specter of a 35-year conflict still haunts its villages.…
Help is a Call Away
Enlisting the Support of Citizens, and Rewarding Them, Can Pay Off in the Fight Against Terrorism
ADF STAFF
As Somalia’s national elections took place in February 2017, government and African Union forces took action to head off…
Maritime Threats Require Unified Navies
Pirates are attacking ships in Somalia and the Gulf of Guinea, and coastal nations will have to work together to stop them.
ADF STAFF
In February 2016, 14 Nigerian and Ghanaian pirates hijacked the Maximus, a Panama-flagged oil tanker,…
Patrolling Cyberspace
New laws and tactics are needed to catch extremists online
ADF STAFF
In July 2017, as Iraqi forces were pushing ISIS out of the city of Mosul, authorities found a 16-year-old girl hiding in a tunnel. She had run away from her home in…
Weapons on the Web
Facebook struggles to control a black market in Libya.
ADF STAFF
With nearly 2 billion active accounts, Facebook has something for almost everyone. That includes black market rocket launchers and anti-aircraft missiles.
Such weapons…
New Tournament Schedule Will Help African Players
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African players will have a better chance to play for European clubs now that the Africa Cup of Nations will take place in the summer, say leading agents.
The tournament, held every two years, is being moved…
The Race is on to Save Congolese Languages
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
“I haven’t once spoken my mother tongue Kilokele in the 62 years I’ve lived in Kinshasa,” says Charles Tongohala. “None of my nine children speak it.”
Tongohala’s native tongue is one of 450 spoken in the…