As Vladimir Putin prepares to host his third Russia-Africa Summit at the end of October, observers are looking at previous…
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When terrorists attacked Bamako and Niamey earlier this year, the military leaders of Niger and Mali did not turn to…
The sound of gunfire and explosions began about 1 a.m. on August 29, setting off a night of intense fighting…
The alliance between the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) Tuareg-led separatist movement and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) terror…
Since Sudan’s civil war began in 2022, mercenaries from Chad, Ethiopia, Libya and South Sudan have operated in the country…
ADF STAFF A string of devastating attacks by Sahelian terror groups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have shown Russian…
A group of Russian Wagner Group mercenaries have shifted their efforts to running a tramadol trafficking empire in the Central…
Tuareg herders Ousmane Ag Sidi and Abdoulwahab Ag Mahamad were working in and around Zahro, a village on the Niger…
Instability has been a fixture in Central African Republic since at least 2004, when a three-year civil war engulfed the…
When Maj. Gen. Al-Nour Ahmed “al-Qubba” Adam defected from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April, he brought a…