South Africa’s Border Management Authority has launched a new high-tech initiative aimed to tightening border…
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At a market in the town of Sébabougou, in a part of western Mali that…
Cameroon and Nigeria are working to better secure their shared border following deadly attacks by…
Ghana continues to make a stand against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, a scourge that…
A recent nighttime assault on a Nigerian military base in northeastern Borno State began with…
In a video posted to social media, a Sudanese soldier dragged a man with a…
With a significant rise in defense spending, Algeria is moving to modernize and expand the…
Decades of armed conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have produced a…
Angola has made significant progress in clearing land mines and other unexploded ordnance left over…
Operation Lafiya Dole Puts Enduring Peace Within Reach for Northeast Nigeria ADF STAFF The military…
Amina J. Mohammed of Nigeria is deputy secretary-general of the United Nations and chair of…
The Economic Community of West African States conducted Operation Safe Domain III, aimed at keeping…
Just three years after the Nigerian Air Force took delivery of a dozen A-29 Super…
Guinea-Bissau, a West African nation once known as a “narco-state,” intercepted 2.63 metric tons of…
The remote town of Birao, Central African Republic, sits close to the borders of Chad…
The Cameroon Army is equipping its special forces with Turkish-made MPT-76 assault rifles. Developed in…
Tunisia is on track to buy an undisclosed number of 20-meter Archangel patrol boats from…