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Joint Training at Shared Accord 13 Strengthens Two Infantries Before daybreak, a convoy of vehicles bumped down a dirt track pocked with deep ruts and termite mounds in the South African veld. The convoy included U.S. Humvees and South…

A Humanitarian Event Offers Free Medical Care to Civilians and Training for Soldiers From a distance, the crowd ringing the cricket stadium near Bhisho, South Africa, looked like fans queuing up for a big match. The festive atmosphere was…

ADF STAFF After more than a year of violence and instability, Malians walked to the polls and cast a vote for a more peaceful future. The vote in late July 2013 occurred without incident under the cover of heavy security. It was the…

South Africa, a Leader in Disaster Response, Works to Improve In January 2013, weeks of heavy rain caused the Limpopo River in Mozambique to swell and spill over its banks, flooding surrounding farmland and villages. About 185,000 people…

Africa from 1980 to 2008  ADF STAFF Africa is home to a wide range of natural disasters. Floods come along with the rainy seasons in Mozambique, Madagascar and Ghana. Famines and droughts are common in East Africa, especially Somalia…

Kofi Portuphy Talks to ADF About His Nation’s Accomplishments and Challenges in Emergency Management Story by ADF STAFF, photo by SENIOR MASTER SGT. DAVID H. LIPP/NORTH DAKOTA AIR NATIONAL GUARD Kofi Portuphy is national coordinator of…

Kenya’s Military Embraces the Role of Disaster Responders BERENIKA STEFANSKA The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) received global attention during the devastating terror attack at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that left more than 60…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Ethiopian running star Haile Gebrselassie said he is entering politics with the aim of winning a parliamentary seat in the 2015 election. The 40-year-old’s announcement in July 2013 came after long-standing…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE When Eritrean cyclist Natnael Berhane crossed the finish line of the Tour of Turkey in May 2013, he made history not only for his country but for his continent. Natnael, 22, who took first place after the winner was…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the best-seller Half of a Yellow Sun, said writing a novel about the civil war that devastated her home region helped people connect with a past that most no longer…