South Africa

ADF STAFF On December 12, 2021, South Africa reported 37,875 cases of COVID-19, marking a new daily record that would later be seen as the peak of the virus. By late January 2022, new cases in South Africa had dropped sharply and…

ADF STAFF Amid the many challenges of rooting out Islamist extremists from the dense forests of northeastern Mozambique lies another issue — how to sustain the joint military effort. In addition to the Armed Defense Forces of…

ADF STAFF With its fast-moving, omicron-fueled fourth wave of COVID-19 in retreat, South Africa’s government recently announced it was lifting a nighttime curfew after nearly two years. Rescinding the midnight-to-4 a.m. curfew is part…

ADF STAFF Severe lockdowns are no longer an effective way to contain the spread of COVID-19, according to the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. John Nkengasong’s pronouncement was made at a news…

ADF STAFF African experts predict the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic might come to an end in 2022, but the disease will remain for a long time afterward. Evidence shows that the omicron variant, the most infectious strain of the…

ADF STAFF As a Christian pastor roamed his fields outside Nova Zambézia village in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province on December 15, insurgents surprised him and his wife. The terrorists accosted him, killed him and severed his head.…

ADF STAFF China’s inroads into Africa’s media environment began in 2006 when Xinhua, the Chinese national news agency, moved its regional headquarters from Paris to Nairobi, Kenya. “There seemed to have been a realization that Nairobi…

ADF STAFF In Frederick Forsyth’s 1974 novel, “The Dogs of War,” a band of mercenaries slips into a small, fictional African nation at the direction of a Western tycoon bent on deposing the nation’s dictator to exploit valuable platinum.…

ADF STAFF As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, the next 12 months could be a time of hope but also of uncertainty as African nations continue to wrestle with the demands posed by the disease. Here are some of the things…

ADF STAFF South Africa’s wave of infections from the COVID-19 omicron strain passed quicker than previous waves, without a dramatic rise in deaths, the government announced in late December. Scientists say that could be welcome news…