Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta in mid-March announced it was recruiting 14,000 soldiers to fight rebels affiliated with al-Qaida and…
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ADF STAFF Three vast, connected national parks in West Africa — the W, Arly and Pendjari — are known as…
Faced with a rising tide of external threats in the north, Benin has spent much of the past eight years…
The Islamic State group’s Somalia branch has become a crucial hub for financing terror across Africa, the Middle East and…
The Islamic State group’s two affiliates in West Africa rely on both modern cryptocurrency and hawala, a traditional person-to-person exchange,…
Puntland security forces made a surprising discovery when they took control of the remote town of Shebaab. Hidden beneath a…
The autonomous state of Puntland has intensified its military campaign against the Islamic State group, which is entrenched in the…
In a sweeping operation that covered multiple East African countries, Afripol recently announced the arrest of 37 terrorism suspects and…
ADF STAFF Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar recently said the Nigerian Air Force is experiencing a “Golden Era,” marked by the…
ADF STAFF Nigeria’s military has launched a campaign against members of the Lakurawa, a group of Islamic State-affiliated terrorists attacking…