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Everything ADR published between 2013 and 2020 — 232 articles, investigations, podcasts and infographics on African defence, armed forces and conflict. The archive is closed, and all of it stays online.
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232 items · newest first19 Apr 2020
Coronavirus Snapshot: South African military on patrol - IN PICTURES
12 Jan 2020Fact check: South African Air Force (SAAF) C-130BZ runway excursion at Goma
19 Jun 2019Brief imagery analysis: 'Ambazonia Defence Forces' propaganda picture
9 Nov 2018A-Darter programme reaches maturity
23 Oct 2018Denel, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar: What we know
9 Oct 2018Zimbabwean Presidential Guard identified at Harare election shootings
1 Aug 2018Army moves in on Zimbabwe election protestors
24 Jun 2018Attack on President Mnangagwa likely by a hand grenade
15 Jun 2018The Lusophone Jihadists?
24 May 2018Rooivalk DRC deployment costs revealed
24 Feb 2018Rooivalks may return from the DRC
15 Nov 2017A timeline of the coup in Zimbabwe
14 Nov 2017Something is happening in Zimbabwe. It might be a coup. It might not. (UPDATED: It now appears more likely that it is)
15 Oct 2017Sending the army to the townships
6 Sep 2017Darfur disarmament: Local leaders fear more war than peace
31 Jul 2017Destination of mystery Air Force Hercules flight revealed
24 Jul 2017Is Hamas Fighting in Libya?
14 Jul 2017Af Urur followup - some interesting details
10 Jul 2017Why the South African Air Force's C-47TPs were grounded and why it matters
9 Jul 2017The Strange Tale of the Georgians in the DRC
10 Jun 2017Finding Af Urur - Al-Shabaab's latest target in Puntland
16 May 2017The Unique Gravity Fuelling Feature on South African Gripens
5 Apr 2017Rethinking South African Arms Sales to the Persian Gulf
22 Mar 2017The Kulbiyow attack uncovered
23 Feb 2017In Pictures: Armed Forces Day 2017
8 Feb 2017The SONA Soldiers
2 Feb 2017ADR Wins Digital Watchdog Funding
27 Jan 2017Al-Shabaab reportedly overran another KDF military base
8 Jan 2017SANDF Colonel and Captain (SAN) Officer Promotions & Appointments for 2016/17
19 Dec 2016One SANDF soldier killed and two wounded in dawn DRC attack
1 Dec 2016SANDF Senior Officer Promotions & Appointments for 2016/17
30 Nov 2016Making sense of a bizarre firefight in Somalia
24 Nov 2016Meeting AHRLAC
14 Nov 2016Project Carver emerges from the shadows
9 Nov 2016Trump and African defence: could mean anything
4 Nov 2016South Africa's comparative military disadvantage
29 Sep 2016Amnesty Reveals Evidence of Sudanese Chemical Weapons Use
21 Sep 2016South African Air Force Capability 2016
19 Sep 2016Oryx hit by small arms fire in the DRC
6 Sep 2016Djibouti's US Drone Apron Expands
1 Sep 2016The Many Lives and Deaths of Abubakar Shekau
26 Aug 2016Good Order at Sea: South Africa’s Plan B
12 Aug 2016Aircraft of the South African Air Force
24 Jul 2016Sudan Breaches Ceasefire in Nuba Mountains
18 Jul 2016Everything ADF
11 Jul 2016What's Happening in Juba: Katy Snowball
10 Jul 2016What's Happening in Juba: Dr Lual Deng
12 Jun 2016If We Leave, We Are Killed (part II)
8 Jun 2016ADR is going to EUROSATORY
6 Jun 2016If We Leave, We Are Killed
27 May 2016Sudan Bombs Primary School in Kauda
25 May 2016Nuba Conflict Intensifying as Fighting Season Ends
17 May 2016Nothing fishy about Chinese vessels in South Africa
2 May 2016Inside SA's Arms Deal: What did they buy?
1 Apr 2016Fighting Season Sees Major Battles in Sudan
11 Mar 2016South Sudan: Government forces deliberately suffocated dozens
24 Feb 2016South Africa to withdraw from UNAMID
23 Feb 2016Plan B for South Africa's Military
16 Feb 2016Darfur Camps for Displaced to Close Amid Spike in Conflict
27 Jan 2016The Case for Private Contractors in Northern Nigeria
24 Jan 2016Conflict Looms as Sudanese Troops Assemble
7 Jan 2016The Man in Charge of MONUSCO
30 Nov 2015SAAF Pilots, Engineers, Loadmasters Receive Wings
8 Nov 2015South Africa’s R4bn VIP jet tender
13 Oct 2015The Future of SANDF Peacekeeping
30 Sep 2015Update on Hawk aircraft moving to AFB Waterkloof
27 Sep 2015SANDF UNAMID troops in rebel ambush
24 Sep 2015SANDF withdraws some FIB troops over indiscipline
17 Sep 2015African Peace Operations: Time to Adjust the Design
11 Sep 2015Elements of 85 Combat Flying School to operate from AFB Waterkloof
1 Sep 2015Is peace coming to South Sudan?
21 Aug 2015South African UNAMID troops in rebel standoff
5 Aug 2015A history of South African UAVs
12 Jul 2015Angola's Su-30Ks are not a serious threat to the South African Air Force
7 Jul 2015Denel Defence Day Highlights
1 Jul 2015Snapshot analysis: Boko Haram’s latest (June 2015) video
23 Jun 2015Red Team: Sudan and the SANDF
11 Jun 2015Defending the Defence Review
18 May 2015African Conflict Map Launches
14 May 2015South Kordofan at a Standstill
13 May 2015Conflict Map
8 May 2015The Army Goes to Bellville
5 May 2015SAAF Oryx hit by small arms fire in DRC
29 Apr 2015ITEC2015 - Military Training and Simulation Tech Show, Prague
28 Apr 2015Rheinmetall Denel Defence Day in Pictures Part 1
24 Apr 2015Saab Signs Contract with Brazil on Weapon Acquisition for Gripen NG
14 Apr 2015Interviewing RENAMO's Antonio Muchanga
10 Apr 2015Rebel Campaign Disrupts Election Efforts in South Kordofan
31 Mar 2015Somaliland’s Uncertain Rise from the Ashes
24 Mar 2015The Case of the Nigerian Contractors
13 Mar 2015Unravelling the case of foreign mercenaries in Nigeria
12 Mar 2015The Rooivalk Attack Helicopter
25 Feb 2015Spies, Jammers and Jihadis
24 Feb 2015Spies & Cables
16 Feb 2015SONA2015: What about defence?
11 Feb 2015An Election Deferred
10 Feb 2015Defence and security company Saab presents the results for 2014.
5 Feb 2015Regional force plans to combat Boko Haram come together
4 Feb 2015MSF Leaving Sudan
22 Jan 2015First Airbus A400M airlifter for Malaysia rolled out of paintshop
22 Jan 2015Multinational task forces don't shoot silver bullets
14 Jan 2015A Closer Look at Boko Haram
10 Jan 2015Africa's 2015 Conflict Barometer - Podcast
9 Jan 2015Has Nigeria acquired Super Hinds?
6 Jan 2015The Year of Hard Choices for SANDF
10 Dec 2014VVIP Charters and the South African Air Force
1 Dec 2014Uniform Idiocy
24 Nov 2014Getting Granular on Peacekeepers
21 Nov 2014France announces order for Airbus A330 MRTT air-to-air refuelling aircraft
17 Nov 2014Limits to any future war
27 Oct 2014Boko Haram and ISIS: the same coin?
10 Oct 2014First Airbus A400M for Germany leaves the paintshop
8 Oct 2014Why are African militaries not making better use of CubeSats?
29 Sep 2014How the World's Terrorists Affect Africa
26 Sep 2014Viral Insecurity
19 Sep 2014AAD Day Three: A400M, Impressions, and the Air Show
19 Sep 2014In Defence of African Aerospace and Defence
18 Sep 2014AAD Day Two: Soft kills & Hard kills
18 Sep 2014AAD Day One: Ministers, Thales, Rosoboron
12 Sep 2014The Idiot's Guide to AAD 2014
10 Sep 2014African Debut for STREIT Vehicles
30 Aug 2014What's Going on in Lesotho?
28 Aug 2014Airbus A400M successfully demonstrates tanker capability
16 Aug 2014Southern Somalia: Still a way to go
13 Aug 2014Paramount Group's AHRLAC Makes First Public Flight
11 Aug 2014Paramount Group and Boeing Make a Deal
1 Aug 2014Understanding Operation Barkhane
31 Jul 2014Gripen closes in on operational Meteor capability
24 Jul 2014South Africa's Defence Budget Speech - The important bits
15 Jul 2014The SAAF’s Options for Strategic Airlift
13 Jul 2014Minewolf at EUROSATORY 2014
8 Jul 2014The SAAF’s Options for Tactical Airlift
3 Jul 2014South Africa's Airlift Crisis
26 Jun 2014Terrorist threats to energy infrastructure in North Africa
18 Jun 2014Eurosatory Day 3: More from the expo
18 Jun 2014STREIT Group’s largest ever contract in Africa
17 Jun 2014Eurosatory 2014 - Day 2
17 Jun 2014New capabilities for Saab’s AT4 family
16 Jun 2014Exploring EUROSATORY
16 Jun 2014Eurosatory Day 2: In the exhibition halls
16 Jun 2014Eurosatory Day 1: Vehicle-mounted UAVs and More
15 Jun 2014Eurosatory 2014: Demonstration Day
2 Jun 2014Local Voices: Armed Militias in Masisi
21 May 2014The story of Saab in Africa
21 May 2014Dassault announces ultra-long range Falcon 8x
18 May 2014Decisive action, or Fuel on the Fire?
14 May 2014SAAF’s Flying Cheetahs to stay airborne
14 May 2014The Days That Started a War in South Sudan
12 May 2014A Problem Like the CAR
5 May 2014Unloved but Needed: PMCs in Africa
2 May 2014Whither the South Sudanese Rebellion?
1 May 2014Casualties in APCLS attack on MONUSCO/FARDC positions
29 Apr 2014SA military veterans get digitised history
29 Apr 2014Boko Haram and Bad Reporting - Part II
23 Apr 2014SANDF needs more budget to meet commitments
23 Apr 2014Inside the South African Defence Review
22 Apr 2014Peacekeeping budgets less than two days’ military spend
22 Apr 2014'This time it’s over' - MONUSCO shows its teeth
15 Apr 2014Bad Reporting and Boko Haram
7 Apr 2014Churches, Conflict and the Kenyan Coast
25 Mar 2014Know Your Aircraft: The Gripen
18 Mar 2014The future of air power in Southern Africa
12 Mar 2014Saab expands African footprint, opens in Botswana
10 Mar 2014Intelsat signs up Airbus Defense and Space
6 Mar 2014Squaring Up Against the ADF
4 Mar 2014SA's Military: Scrabbling for Petrol Money
27 Feb 2014Boko Haram: Nigeria's Transnational Insurgency?
25 Feb 2014Commentary on ongoing fighting in Mali
18 Feb 2014Angola's New Su–30Ks
14 Feb 2014A Violent Kind of Ceasefire, Part 2
11 Feb 2014A Violent Kind of Ceasefire
7 Feb 2014Global defence budgets set to rise
3 Feb 2014Saab wins steady state support order for Gripen
28 Jan 2014Advertise on African Defence Review
28 Jan 2014Structuring the African Military Beyond COIN
22 Jan 2014ADF-NALU: DRC's new, old threat?
20 Jan 2014UNDP urges governments to end CAR suffering
13 Jan 2014Piracy's Persistence in the Gulf of Guinea
2 Jan 2014While You Were on Holiday: DRC, South Sudan & the CAR
20 Dec 2013Whither the Pirates?
19 Dec 2013Saab wins R150m German Air Force orders
18 Dec 2013What happened in Juba?
18 Dec 2013Direct from Juba
11 Dec 2013Africa Offshore: Maritime Security Update
27 Nov 2013First Airbus Military A400M makes its final flight
26 Nov 2013The economic link to piracy in Africa
26 Nov 2013West Africa navies make policing transition
25 Nov 2013Pirate attacks in West Africa to double in 2014
25 Nov 2013Progress in regional co-operation slow but sure
25 Nov 2013Unmanned surveillance meets Africa’s patrol needs
25 Nov 2013Sub-regional partnerships to address sea crime
25 Nov 2013The growing scourge of piracy off west Africa
25 Nov 2013Opportunity to secure the blue economy
25 Nov 2013Driving Africa’s blue economy: threats and opportunities
25 Nov 2013Co-operation needed for maritime security
15 Nov 2013Conference to boost navy collaboration
15 Nov 2013Why a joint air defence capability is the answer for SADC
14 Nov 2013Why the Congolese Government should be flexible
11 Nov 2013(Failed) State of the Nation: A CAR Update
6 Nov 2013The Last Days of M23
5 Nov 2013Rooivalk attack helicopters perform well in first combat action against M23
30 Oct 2013How M23 was rolled back
25 Oct 2013Rooivalk Deployment to the DRC Appears Imminent
22 Oct 2013Drones and Rooivalk to the DRC
9 Oct 2013Like a G5. South Africa's artillery in an infographic.
9 Oct 2013FIB's War on M23 could be heating up
25 Sep 2013Why Kenya Must Stay in Somalia
23 Sep 2013The next terrorist attack: Al Qaeda's maritime history and ambitions
19 Sep 2013What the DRC tells us about South Africa's Army
10 Sep 2013John Stupart on the DRC - eNCA
5 Sep 2013Week 1 of FIB's War: 3 Lessons Learned
1 Sep 2013Podcast: After the FIB Assault
29 Aug 2013The FIB Goes To War
28 Aug 2013Visualizing the Small Arms Trade
26 Aug 2013Managing Editor John Stupart Talks DRC
22 Aug 2013Fighting Breaks Out in Goma - Communications Tower Destroyed
20 Aug 2013Historical Scenarios for Egypt - Part I, Brazil
14 Aug 2013Making chaos profitable in the DRC
8 Aug 2013Podcast: African Defence Roundup of Mali, Egypt, DRC
6 Aug 2013Crying Wolf - When everything is al Qaeda
31 Jul 2013Understanding the Force Intervention Brigade
30 Jul 2013Why is South Africa Fighting Pirates in Mozambique?
26 Jul 2013Five Things You Never Knew About the South African Military
22 Jul 2013About Us
22 Jul 2013The State of South Africa's C-130s
21 Jul 2013The African Defence Podcast
21 Jul 2013The Landmines of Northern Uganda
18 Jul 2013Land Forces Africa, Day 2
16 Jul 2013Land Forces Africa, Day 1
15 Jul 2013Land Forces Africa Pre-show Podcast
16 Jun 2013Contact Us
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