ADF STAFF Benin’s military is working to reassure communities in its northern border areas that it can protect the region…
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ADF STAFF Islamic State attacks in the Sahel have shifted in recent months toward towns along the Mali-Niger border. Civilians…
ADF STAFF The United States government donated a 427-square-meter, $1.6 million mobile field hospital to Niger’s Agadez Regional Council in early…
ADF STAFF Musa Barkame once made his living transporting goods by boat across Lake Chad to markets in Nigeria. All…
ADF STAFF In a West African region known for the proliferation of violent extremist organizations, Mauritania stands out for its…
ADF STAFF Community health worker Mariam Traoré spends her days going door to door in Yirimadio, just outside Bamako, Mali,…
ADF STAFF The scene has played out repeatedly across the Sahel in recent years: A group of military officers take…
ADF STAFF A new gas pipeline stretching from southern Nigeria toward the Mediterranean Sea could open Africa’s vast and largely…
ADF STAFF At a training facility in Jacqueville, Côte d’Ivoire, Soldiers with Ghana’s Special Forces Unit leaned a metal ladder…
ADF STAFF As Sahel-based terror groups push south, some West African nations have joined forces to push back. Burkina Faso,…