ADF STAFF Senior leaders from land forces across Africa gathered in Côte d’Ivoire in May for the 2023 African Land…
Browsing: Burkina Faso
ADF STAFF Sometimes it starts with a violent threat written in graffiti on a school wall. When heavily armed extremists…
ADF STAFF Burkina Faso has struggled with extremist violence pouring out of neighboring Mali since 2015. But November 14, 2021,…
ADF STAFF More than 4,200 people in Burkina Faso were killed by armed violence in 2022. In the first 3…
ADF STAFF The brutal attack lasted about six hours. When it was over, at least 156 people were dead. Some…
ADF STAFF Extremist rebel groups in Mali have long trafficked cocaine, engaged in illegal gold mining and kidnapping hostages for…
ADF STAFF Alima never again expects to live in her Burkina Faso home. Standing near a refugee settlement in Ghana,…
ADF STAFF In mid-2020, the Central African Republic’s Constitutional Court denied President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s request to delay the 2020 elections…
ADF STAFF Now that Burkina Faso’s junta has forced French troops to leave the country, analysts say Russia’s Wagner Group…
ADF STAFF Experts say an Islamic State group affiliate’s recent actions in northeast Mali signal that the group has entered…