With one tap of a torch, Kenyan President William Ruto set ablaze a huge stockpile of firearms at the National…
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The continent loses up to $50 billion annually to illicit financial flows, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for…
A surge in gun violence is sweeping across Ghana, with reported incidents more than tripling between the first and second…
The French Navy on September 22 seized nearly 10 tons of cocaine worth $610 million from an unflagged fishing vessel in…
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) recently took control of the country’s northwestern corner that borders Egypt and Libya. The…
In 2024, a United Nations monitoring team reported that the relationship between Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorist group and Yemen’s Houthi rebels…
Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) used drones loaded with explosives when they killed 12 Cameroonian…
Russia has used its so-called “ghost fleet” of aging commercial vessels to evade sanctions on oil exports, but experts say…
ADF STAFF Three vast, connected national parks in West Africa — the W, Arly and Pendjari — are known as…
ADF STAFF The Nigerian Air Force, working as part of Operation Hadarin Daji, killed Zamfara-based bandit leader Kachalla Halilu Sububu…