ADF STAFF Immediately after Burkina Faso’s National Assembly unanimously approved arming civilian volunteers to help battle extremists in January 2020,…
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ADF STAFF Years of peace in the coastal nation of Côte d’Ivoire were interrupted in 2020 when violent extremist groups…
ADF STAFF After attending the 2023 African Chiefs of Defense Conference in Rome, Botswana Defence Force Commander Lt. Gen. Placid…
ADF STAFF No one knows the dangerous, porous borderlands of Kenya and Somalia like its residents, and in the face…
ADF STAFF Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria killed 20 young men in one of a series of early June attacks…
ADF STAFF After years of fighting terrorism in the Sahel, experts say one counterterror tool has been badly neglected: economic…
ADF STAFF Somalia and the al-Shabaab terrorist group are fighting a war within a war — a constant battle to…
ADF STAFF In more than 15 years of fighting al-Shabaab, Somali leaders have discovered they cannot defeat the terror group…
ADF STAFF In Africa, the Russian mercenary outfit formerly known as the Wagner Group left a trail of allegations of…
ADF STAFF A few kilometers from the border between Turkey and Syria, at Al-Muksourah base in the Tel Abyad countryside,…