Bought, Not Built: The Turkish Defence Model and the Capacity It Leaves Behind in Africa
In the same year that African Union forces were due to hand Somalia responsibility for its own defence, Mogadishu's defence...
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Peace is Negotiable, Access is Not: How Africa’s Mineral Belts Became War Economies
On February 18, 2026, a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo was supposed to begin. It did not. M23...
The Benin Intervention: Nigeria Proves It’s West Africa’s Security Guarantor
At 2 a.m. on December 7, 2025, some Beninese soldiers wearing military fatigues took over a state television station to...
Nigeria’s Defence Dependency Problem: Why Local Capability Must Replace Foreign Reliance
Nigeria faces a fresh but not new wave of banditry in the Northwest, farmer-herder conflicts, Boko Haram insurgency, and kidnapping...