Terrorism

ADF STAFF Operation Shujaa, which means hero in Swahili, is making gains that offer hope it can live up to its name. After years of terrorism by hundreds of armed groups that live in the dense forests near their shared border, Uganda…

ADF STAFF The increasing presence of Russia’s Wagner Group in Africa underlined the Kremlin’s continued efforts to exert its influence on the continent in 2021. The shadowy group of private military contractors garnered…

ADF STAFF For several years, Uganda has offered to help its neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), fight a bloodthirsty band of Islamist militants based in its restive northeast region. The group, known as the Allied…

ADF STAFF The year 2021 in Africa will be remembered like 2020 was — the year of COVID-19. But there were other big stories in 2021 in Africa, the world’s fastest-growing continent. MILITARY COUPS — Over the past two decades, Africa…

ADF STAFF When protests in South Africa boiled over into violence and looting in July, much of the energy driving the violence came from social media. Across the continent, social media has become a mechanism for amplifying already…

ADF STAFF The fight against a violent Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado region is beginning to stabilize, thanks to the help of regional and Western forces and advisors. Now the coastal country in Southern…

ADF STAFF Amid a recent surge of terrorism in Somalia and the continued lack of adequate state security forces, the need for peacekeepers remains high. Time is running out, however, on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),…

ADF STAFF A sharp rise in deadly attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has coincided with a link to ISIS. There are 122 armed groups operating in the densely forested region that borders Uganda to the east,…

ADF STAFF Facing severe oxygen shortages in late September, Somalia opened its first oxygen plant at a hospital in Mogadishu. The plant is expected to produce 1,000 cylinders of oxygen per day. It was installed at Banadir…

ADF STAFF The Islamic State group, which once held about a third of Syrian territory and even more ground in Iraq, now oversees a network of affiliates of varying sizes across Africa. Each affiliate arose in disparate regions with…