ADF STAFF The Wagner Group may have a new name for its operations in Africa, but it’s the same Russian…
Browsing: Niger
ADF STAFF Deep in Benin’s Pendjari National Park, a former luxury resort has become a military base. There, Soldiers are…
ADF STAFF The rise of ethnic militias in recent years threatens conflict-ridden western Niger, near the tri-border area with Burkina…
ADF STAFF In September, terrorists fired three rockets at a ferry on the Niger River, killing 49 people. Witnesses said…
ADF STAFF Just 2,700 kilometers separate northeastern Brazil from the western coast of Africa. Traffickers use this proximity to move…
ADF STAFF Two Malian Army aircraft came under gunfire from rebels in mid-August when they landed at a United Nations…
ADF STAFF Seven Nigerien Soldiers died during a late September battle with hundreds of insurgents on motorbikes in Kandadji, a…
ADF STAFF Mali’s ruling junta took power in 2021 proclaiming that it would do what previous leaders had not: put…
ADF STAFF The recent military coup in Niger has not made life easier for Nigeriens or people in the wider…
ADF STAFF Kibsa Ouedraogo is chief of Noaka, a community in north-central Burkina Faso that is surrounded by artisanal gold…