Peacekeeping

ADF STAFF When eight pirates attacked the fishing vessels Aliman and Shenghai-2 off Sierra Leone’s coast, perhaps they thought they would kidnap crew members and extort ransoms for a hefty payday. Maybe they thought one or both of the…

ADF STAFF In returning to his hometown of Bujumbura, Frederic Gateretse-Ngoga awoke every morning with a strong sense of place and purpose. It was November 2022, and he was back in Burundi’s capital amid the familiar colors, smells,…

ADF STAFF Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Kotia remembers being deployed to Lebanon in 2006 to command the Ghanaian battalion of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).  Some southern villages in his area of responsibility had been occupied…

ADF STAFF During its more than two-year intervention in Mozambique, Rwanda has attempted to do something difficult: defeat an insurgency while avoiding civilian casualties. According to a new study, there is evidence that it is…

UNITED NATIONS Since 1948, more than 2 million uniformed and civilian personnel have served in United Nations field missions across the world. Their contributions were highlighted on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers,…

ADF STAFF The United Nations has awarded its U.N. Training Recognition certification to the Ghana Army Peace Operations Training School. The school was awarded the certificate after a vigorous assessment of the training materials of…

ADF STAFF Angola has spent most of its time as an independent nation at war. It knows the cost of conflict and the dividends of peace. Now, more than 20 years after a peace agreement was signed to end the country’s civil war, Angola is…

ADF STAFF Nearly 2,000 kilometers from the seat of the government in Kinshasa, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been beset by violence for decades. Recent tensions have surged with the revitalized M23 rebel group,…

ADF STAFF As director of the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) in Nairobi, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Brig. Joyce Sitienei took center stage recently as host of an international peacekeeping summit. “We are honored to…

ADF STAFF The African Union’s decision to deploy troops to Somalia in 2007 came after the country had endured 16 years of anarchy and other international missions had failed to restore order. In the 16 years since the AU intervened,…