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ADF STAFF To improve the political stability of African nations, the African Union recently launched its Centre for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD). The new agency is based in Egypt and mandated to provide…

ADF STAFF The increasing presence of Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa underlined the Kremlin’s continued efforts to exert its influence on the continent in 2021. The shadowy group of private military contractors garnered…

ADF STAFF When protests in South Africa boiled over into violence and looting in July, much of the energy driving the violence came from social media. Across the continent, social media has become a mechanism for amplifying already…

ADF STAFF A pro-Russian demonstration on the streets of Bamako, Mali, was meant to look spontaneous. It was anything but. Days after the country’s second coup in nine months, hundreds of pro-military demonstrators marched from the…

ADF STAFF After two decades that saw steep drops in military coups, observers are worried they may be on the rise again in Africa. This year in Sudan, Mali and Guinea, heads of state were removed from power, not at the ballot box, but…

ADF STAFF On March 18, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a large, international study of four potential COVID-19 treatments. “We have called this study the Solidarity trial,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…

ADF STAFF A new strain of the delta variant of COVID-19 is now spreading in Russia and some European countries, creating the potential for yet another iteration of the coronavirus to make its way to Africa. The “delta plus” variant,…

ADF STAFF Russia recently admitted it has been blocking United Nations investigations into violations of arms embargoes in four African conflict zones — some involving Russian mercenaries. U.N. diplomats on September 29 said Russia is…

ADF STAFF Military analysts say the decision by Mali’s government to invite Russian Wagner Group mercenaries into the country could backfire and lead to further instability. Wagner’s track record in other countries shows its fighters…

Story by ADF STAFF | Photos by AFP/GETTY IMAGES More than 20 African nations have started administering millions of free COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX, the global plan to equitably distribute the shots.  In the initial March 2021…