Kenya

ADF STAFF The smartphone video showing a Chinese mining manager whipping two Rwandan employees about their heads with a piece of rope as they sat with their hands tied behind their backs went viral in August 2021. The video became a…

ADF STAFF The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially joined the East African Community (EAC) as the regional bloc’s seventh partner state on March 29. Less than a month later, the EAC voted to establish a regional military…

ADF STAFF The Baba Ali, a Seychellois fishing vessel, was passing through the Seychelles exclusive economic zone (EEZ) when authorities intercepted it in May 2021. Through an operation coordinated by the Seychelles Air Force,…

ADF STAFF The Kenya Defence Forces’ National Defence College has received a charter to become a full-fledged university. The upgrade will let it offer graduate and postgraduate training to local and foreign military and civilian leaders…

ADF STAFF The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) is taking the lead on development projects designed to get the country’s economy moving after COVID-19. Projects include operating a meat production facility and rehabilitating a railway and port.…

ADF STAFF The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people in ways that are clear and hard to define. Among the more subtle effects are the fear and anxiety felt by people over how the virus will change and how best to protect themselves and…

ADF STAFF As of April 5, more than 251,300 Africans died from COVID-19, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). But morgue statistics from Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka, showed that nearly…

ADF STAFF After two years of lockdowns, social distancing, mask-wearing, strained health systems and more than 251,000 coronavirus-related deaths in Africa, health experts are evaluating the continent’s response to the pandemic. When…

ADF STAFF More than 800 military personnel from Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and other countries gathered in Kenya and Rwanda for three weeks of field training and command post exercises to strengthen their ability to work together…

ADF STAFF In its continuing efforts to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, Kenya ratified the Cape Town Agreement (CTA) and the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping…