Maj. Hans Radegod leads the Seychelles Coast Guard on a seemingly overwhelming mission: stopping the flood of heroin and other…
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From the shores of Eyl, a fishing community in Somalia’s autonomous Puntland State, locals watched with growing anger the lights…
ADF STAFF Ghana in early January bolstered its maritime security capabilities when it commissioned a forward operating base in Ezinlibo,…
The Nigerian Navy pursued the oil tanker MT Heroic Idun into the Gulf of Guinea. Navy officials suspected the ship…
ADF STAFF Members of the Armed Forces of Mauritania huddled close as their vessel sliced through the Mediterranean Sea toward…
ADF STAFF A new multinational security partnership is threatening to shift the balance of power in the Horn of Africa.…
ADF STAFF The Ghana Navy in September received two Defender patrol boats that will enhance its capacity to combat illegal,…
ADF STAFF South Africa’s Navy, once the continent’s most powerful, is now struggling after years of financial belt-tightening forced it…
ADF STAFF Some analysts worried that Somali pirates were staging a comeback when a Maltese-flagged merchant ship, the Ruen, was…
ADF STAFF The Saloum River delta in Senegal is a vast region of sun-drenched salt marshes, brackish estuaries and hundreds…