Photo Essays
Making sense of a bizarre firefight in Somalia
In the middle of 2015, Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, best known as al-Shabaab, was about to unleash several noteworthy and significant attacks on AMISOM forces across […]
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Snapshot analysis: Boko Haram’s latest (June 2015) video
On 23 June, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram released a new video showing some of their recent activities. They did so under their newly adopted name: Wilayat Gharb […]
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Spies, Jammers and Jihadis
Image by James Rayneau Editor John Stupart and Senior Correspondent Darren Olivier discuss three issues currently dominating South African media, and how big of a […]
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Local Voices: Armed Militias in Masisi
This article has been republished with the kind permission of Search for Common Ground. With a few hundred men, the APCLS is one of the numerous armed groups who […]
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The Days That Started a War in South Sudan
The killing of civilians in Juba, South Sudan in mid-December set the stage for the civil war that has torn the country apart over the last five months. Although the […]
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Casualties in APCLS attack on MONUSCO/FARDC positions
Three South African National Defence Force (SANDF) troops were wounded yesterday morning (30 April) during an attack by the APCLS (Alliance of Patriots for a Free and […]
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Churches, Conflict and the Kenyan Coast
Kenya has traditionally been a diverse nation where people live relatively peacefully within mixed religious communities. Ethnically driven competition may have existed, […]
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Squaring Up Against the ADF
In an acronym-laden report, MONUSCO has announced the latest developments in operations against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) and the Democratic Forces for the […]
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Commentary on ongoing fighting in Mali
With the war against Tuareg militants in Mali having fallen off the popular news radar, African Defence Review sat down with Conway Waddington, a specialist conflict […]
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A Violent Kind of Ceasefire
Despite a recently signed, and barely honoured ceasefire, the positions of Riek Machar and Salva Kiir remain apparently irreconcilable, while evidence of organised […]
Photo Essays
The Last Days of M23
It was an assault that few DRC cynics thought possible. Last week, with the assistance of the United Nations’s newly established Force Intervention Brigade, troops […]
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How M23 was rolled back
In just four days, M23 has been dislodged from every one of the strongholds it once held. This surprisingly rapid reversal of fortunes for the group was unprecedented […]