Category: Africa

A surge of false information spread online amid the boiling tension between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Rwanda.

Earlier this week, the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM), the main jihadist alliance in the region, claimed they killed four Wagner mercenaries during an ambush in central Mali.

Boko Haram is one of the deadliest terrorists in the world since it first emerged in the early 2000s. Its faction includes ISWAP and Ansaru

A Former CIA targeting officer with experience on the ground in Libya offers her thoughts on the prospect of a third civil war in Libya.

Heath Hansen files this report from the Congo where he embedded with Rangers trying to interdict illegal mining and poaching by the Mai Mai militia who believe they are protected from bullets by black magic.

President Biden has approved an order that authorizes some 500 Special Operations personnel to be redeployed to Somalia.

The new year always brings the promise of new things being just on the horizon. The world is a volatile place today, with shifting economies, the continued presence of Islamist terrorism around the world, and the Great Game of competition between nations seeking diplomatic, strategic, and economic advantages around the globe. Everyone is a prognosticator […]

The Russian Mercenaries of Wagner Group are the stars of a new film lauding their work in Mozambique. It seems more to us like an infomercial for Wagner than entertainment.

From Russia to China and even TikTok subverting law and order in public schools, this is the SOFREP week in review.

Western governments protest the government of Mali hiring Russian mercenaries under the guise of bringing in the Wagner Group which is accused of operating as a proxy for Moscow and Vladamir Putin.

As funny as his nom de guerre sounds, General Butt Naked’s atrocious deeds during Liberia’s 14-year civil war were no laughing matter.

The Takuba Special Operations Task Force, comprised of French Special Operations troops has killed a key leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) for his part in the murders of six civilian aid workers and two guides in Niger in 2020.