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ADF STAFF Overall governance and security was worse in 2023 than it was a decade earlier for most of Africa’s population. That is according to the 2024 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), which found the rise in junta-led…

ADF STAFF The young woman was enticed by social media ads promising a job, good pay and a new life in Russia. The advertising photos showed women smiling as they cleaned floors and wearing hard hats while directing cranes at a factory in…

ADF STAFF A regional office for innovative gender-based violence solutions in Southern Africa is in the works, according to the Zambian Defense Force (ZDF). That was just one product of a workshop in Lusaka from September 23 to October 2…

ADF STAFF The Botswana Defence Force and United States military came together in August for Southern Accord 24, a 10-day biennial joint exercise designed to improve the ability of the two forces to work together in peacekeeping,…

ADF STAFF Gender-based violence and allegations of rape in the Central African Republic (CAR) have escalated in recent months, and locals are casting much of the blame on Russian mercenaries. More than 1,000 Russian mercenaries of the…

ADF STAFF A loss of territory and manpower have resulted in Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) unleashing suicide attacks in Nigeria, analysts say. On one day in late June, three suicide bombers, each…

UNITED NATIONS The United States representative to the United Nations has announced a pledge of $3 million to support a body armor pilot program for women.  Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield joined partners from Ghana, the…

UNITED NATIONS For more than a year, a group of United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana led by Capt. Esinam Baah regularly patrolled the “blue line,” or the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel. They visited neighborhoods in the…

ADF STAFF Retired Brig. Gen. Geraldine Janet George’s long, decorated career began in 2006 and culminated in late April, when the Liberian Senate confirmed her as the nation’s first female defense minister. George, who also is the…

ADF STAFF One of the many points of pride in the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) is its embrace of gender equality and policies to integrate women into the military. Lt. Cdr. Priscilla Ami Dogbeda Dzokoto, the first female commanding officer of…