Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta in mid-March announced it was recruiting 14,000 soldiers to fight rebels affiliated with al-Qaida and…
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ADF STAFF Somalia’s al-Shabaab and Yemen’s Ansar Allah rebels have struck an alliance that threatens to destabilize more of the…
Djibouti’s position at the southern end of the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandeb Strait has made it vital to international and…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced plans to activate its standby force as terrorism from Burkina…
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on March 13 announced the termination and phased withdrawal of its military mission in…
The Islamic State group (IS) aims to expand its terrorism beyond the Sahel region and into North Africa and West…
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was en route to Mogadishu International Airport on March 18 when al-Shabaab militants launched a…
ADF STAFF Three vast, connected national parks in West Africa — the W, Arly and Pendjari — are known as…
Faced with a rising tide of external threats in the north, Benin has spent much of the past eight years…
Although Morocco has not experienced a major terror attack in more than a decade, it remains a target for terror…