By depending on foreign forces for its counterinsurgency, Mozambique has essentially outsourced sovereignty over part of the country.

The U.S. defense secretary’s emphasis on warfighting ignores the other important factors that make a military cohesive and effective.

Johannesburg, specializing in southern Africa. She advises clients on political, economic and operational risk and conducts due diligence investigations in countries across the subregion. She holds a ...

Cameroonian President Paul Biya—92 years old and in power since 1982—remains the overwhelming favorite to secure re-election in this Sunday’s presidential election. In the l ...

Even as Israel and Hama agreed to the first phase of Trump’s peace plan, thousands of U.S. troops have deployed around Venezuela.

Long-range Peklo (Hell) drones on display in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec. 6, 2024 (photo by Volodymyr Tarasov for NurPhoto via AP). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn ...

Recent military coups and a wave of violent extremism are challenging Algeria’s role as regional security guarantor.

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The recent deployments of servicemembers to U.S. cities give citizens a rare opportunity to bridge the civil-military divide.

The Security Council may be setting up the new U.N. mission to Haiti for failure, just as it did to its predecessor.

Japan is set to have its first-ever female prime minister after Takaichi Sanae won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s ...

Having initially sanctioned the coup leaders of three Sahel states that withdrew from it last year, ECOWAS now hopes to reconcile.