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Leaders Outline Future of Peacekeeper Training as Kenya Hosts IAPTC
ADF STAFF As director of the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) in Nairobi, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Brig. Joyce Sitienei took center stage recently as host of an international...
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Fog of Eastern DRC Fighting Clouds EACRF Effectiveness
ADF STAFF Nearly 2,000 kilometers from the seat of the government in Kinshasa, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been beset by violence for decades. Recent tensions have surged...
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Report: Chinese Firm Extracted $5 Million in Illegal Timber From DRC in 6 Months
ADF STAFF A new study reveals how a Chinese logging company is illegally leveling rainforests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), stripping the country of millions of dollars’ worth of...
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Malian Citizens Suffer Amid Army, Extremist and Mercenary Attacks
ADF STAFF In September, terrorists fired three rockets at a ferry on the Niger River, killing 49 people. Witnesses said the victims, all civilians, drowned or were burned to death. The terrorists...
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Observers Warn Chinese PME Training Could Harm Civil-Military Relations
ADF STAFF When he traveled to Beijing for a state visit in May, Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki was retracing a trip he made more than 50 years earlier when he was trained in guerilla warfare...
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In Burkina Faso, ‘A New Town or Village Comes Under Siege Every Day’
ADF STAFF Insurgents killed about 100 people, mostly children and the elderly, in the northern Burkina Faso village of Zaongo in early November. A local prosecutor said the assailants were unknown,...
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Ethnic Militias in Niger Drive Brutal Cycles of Violence
ADF STAFF The rise of ethnic militias in recent years threatens conflict-ridden western Niger, near the tri-border area with Burkina Faso and Mali. Two groups in particular, the garde nomade, a group...
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RSF Advances Give It Control Over Half of Sudan
ADF STAFF After nearly eight months of fighting, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appears to be consolidating its control over the five states of the Darfur region along with parts of the capital,...
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As Terrorists Flee NAF Airstrikes, They Target Vulnerable Farmers
ADF STAFF The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has intensified its campaign of airstrikes against extremist militant groups in the northeast. In revenge attacks, fleeing insurgents have begun targeting farmers...
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Fears Grow That Violent History Could be Repeated in Darfur
ADF STAFF Montessor Saddam was staying at a camp for displaced people in Sudan’s West Darfur region when members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group attacked on November 2. Over the...
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