Africa accounted for 57% of the total quantity of pharmaceutical opioids seized worldwide between 2019 and 2023, according to a…
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A man in Freetown, Sierra Leone, inhaled from a kush cigarette, a synthetic drug that looks like marijuana but can…
Private military companies, private security companies, paramilitary forces and mercenaries have operated in Africa for decades, but their use by…
As India builds greater ties with Africa, the Indian Navy is playing a significant role in establishing maritime security partnerships.…
South Africa’s Border Management Authority (BMA) has deployed four drones and added 40 body cameras to halt illegal migration, smuggling…
Al-Qaida-linked terrorists attacked seven Malian military posts July 1 in a series of coordinated, simultaneous early-morning assaults on urban centers…
In September 2024, Col. Assimi Goïta, Mali’s junta leader, traveled to Beijing to visit Norinco, a weapons manufacturing company. Mali…
The South African National Defense Force faces a R41.2 billion (more than $2.3 million) budgetary shortfall that limits every operational,…
Malian journalist Seydou Oumar Traoré on May 26 was arrested for criticizing Guinea’s transitional president, Gen. Mamady Doumbouya, marking a continuing…
When Angolan President João Lourenço visited New Delhi in early May, it marked a realignment of the country’s foreign policy priorities.…