Signs are emerging in Uganda that the East African nation is gearing up for hereditary leadership, with a military commander poised to take the helm from his own father. Public fetes celebrating the son of Uganda’s leader are raising concern he is aiming for the presidency after years of apparently …
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The Ukrainian military says it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea near Snake Island, declaring that a missile launched from a Bayraktar drone struck a Russian landing craft. “In the waters of the Black Sea, an enemy landing craft of the type Serna was destroyed,” military spokesman Serhiy Bratschuk …
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By Robert K. Brown After 47 adventure-filled years of publishing Soldier of Fortune Magazine, I decided it was time to move on to other long awaited projects, including writing books of the SOF adventures. After having given it considerable thought, I am passing the torch to journalist and author Susan …
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The United States is giving Ukraine 16 Mi-17 helicopters that Washington had procured for Afghanistan, a U.S. government agency charged with monitoring Afghan events said Wednesday.The Department of Defense (DOD) notified Congress in January that it intended to give the Ukrainian government five of the Russian-built helicopters, which had been …
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By SoF correspondent Gatimu Juma Early morning gunfire was the first sign of a deadly assault at a military base about 100 miles from Mogadishu, alerting local residents to the Tuesday attack by al-Shabaab. Officials and residents near the base said that many dozen Burundi soldiers were killed, and others …
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A federal jury convicted a Dutch woman on charges stemming from her participation in a terrorist financing ring in support of the Somalia-based terrorist group al-Shabaab. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Farhia Hassan, 38, was involved with a group of women from more than a dozen …
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By SoF correspondent Owen Thorne Bus loads of civilians arrived in Zaporizhzhia today after being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where a new wave of Russian attacks have been reported. The civilians traveled in a convoy for more than 24 hours, crossing out of Donbas through …
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By Megan Duzor and Brian Williamson | VOA News The African continent saw a significant increase in coups in the last year-and-a-half, with military figures carrying out takeovers in Burkina Faso, Sudan, Guinea, Chad and Mali. After Sudan’s coup in October 2021, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke of “an epidemic” of coups, including the events in Africa …
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Of all the lethal munitions strewn across towns north of the Ukrainian capital, Chris Garrett says perhaps the nastiest are the Bouncing Betty-type mines designed to spring out of the ground and explode at waist-height. Speaking by telephone from the north of Kyiv, the British explosives expert describes the leaping Soviet-designed …
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Russia has sent nuclear specialists to help monitor the Zaporizhzhya power plant in Ukraine’s southeast, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The agency said that Kyiv reported the information to IAEA. The nuclear plant, which is under Russian control but still operated by Ukrainian staff amid heavy fighting between …
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