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The FIB Goes To War
At 07h50 yesterday morning, the Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) fired the opening […]
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Fighting Breaks Out in Goma - Communications Tower Destroyed
During the night on 21 August, heavy fighting broke out 3km north of Goma’s airport between the M23 rebel movement and FARDC soldiers. According to sources in the […]
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Historical Scenarios for Egypt - Part I, Brazil
For Egypt’s ongoing crisis of leadership there is a distinct pattern of dissatisfaction with the state that is being aired first by anti-Morsi demonstrators and […]
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Making chaos profitable in the DRC
There lies a very simple answer to why some of Africa’s bloodiest, most brutal wars never seem to end. They are not really wars in the conventional view. The […]
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Crying Wolf - When everything is al Qaeda
Admist the stream of media attention paid towards the fight against M23 in the Eastern DRC, there operates another Ugandan-formed, Congolese-staffed rebel organisation, […]
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Why is South Africa Fighting Pirates in Mozambique?
Late in December 2010, Somali pirates made an attempted hijacking of a Taiwanese and Liberian fishing vessels sailing in the Mozmbican Channel. A few days later, on […]
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Five Things You Never Knew About the South African Military
Knowing the military - any military - is a tough task for anyone. The South African National Defence Force, or SANDF, have some particularly interesting characteristics […]
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The State of South Africa's C-130s
ADR has tracked the ongoing state of the South African Air Force’s fleet of C-130 aircraft, which appear to be in various states of repair. Interesting to note that […]