Category: Africa

His death comes at a very difficuly time for the Nigerian army that has been battling Islamist for a decade.

Every so often extraordinary men emerge. Robert MacKenzie was such a man doing more than most to stop Communism.

Different realities call for different approaches and the U.S. should seriously consider finally moving AFRICOM’s headquarters to Africa.

Michelle Black’s book breaks down, minute-by-minute, the awful events that unfolded in Niger in 2017 and the Army’s shameful reaction.

Chad is beset by rebels while demonstrators rally against the transititional government.

African Christians are in a dire situation. As Iran and Islamic terrorism spread in the continent, their fate is in the balance.

The circumstances of President Idriss Deby’s death have not been made public. Chad now faces a political vacuum.

Armored Personnel Carriers are a valuable resource but will they make a difference in the embattled Sahel?

The simultaneous attacks on the Somali bases began with vehicle-borne suicide bombs, al-Shabaab’s spokesman said.

“The government condemns this coward and backward act that had the intention to attack the democracy and the rule of law,” Niger’s goverment said of the coup attempt.

Recently, SOFREP published an article that U.S. Green Berets from SOCAFRICA were deployed to Mozambique to train host nation marines in the fight against Islamic jihadists in the violent province of Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique.  The U.S. public is by now used to hearing about American efforts against al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in […]

“This strike was ordered after a phase of identification permitting the characterization of the presence of an armed terrorist group.”