African Union

ADF STAFF The African Union has had a regional peacekeeping mission in Somalia for nearly as long as the country has been plagued by an Islamist extremist insurgency. Established in 2007, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)…

ADF STAFF When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, lawyer David Ngwerume didn’t just sit around waiting for the courthouse to reopen. He was inspired to create art with a message of hope and unity, as he and fellow Zimbabweans adhered to…

ADF STAFF Amid a recent surge of terrorism in Somalia and the continued lack of adequate state security forces, the need for peacekeepers remains high. Time is running out, however, on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),…

ADF STAFF Last year, Margaret Ilomuanya was unable to find her aunt’s hypertension medicine in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, for nearly three months. Her experience was common in Africa, where every country suffered some degree of…

ADF STAFF Since the onset of the global pandemic, African nations have conducted 72 million tests for COVID-19. In the eyes of public health experts, that’s not nearly enough to prevent another wave of infections from sweeping the…