militaries

Assessing Military Strength in the Horn of Africa: Challenges and Possibilities When discussing military strength and strategic capability across the globe, Somalia offers a poignant example of complexity and vulnerability. In a region characterized by geopolitical dynamism, Somalia's heavy reliance on external support, particularly foreign-led training missions and cooperation from the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), underscores inherent weaknesses. Analysts caution that this dependence reveals deep…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Bakata Katanga phenomenon continues. On a regular basis, these militiamen with a presumed separatist tendency are making intrusions in some cities in the former province of Katanga. They claim that they are fighting for the restoration of the independent state of Katanga, which was proclaimed in July 1960. Several dozen of them were arrested in April by the police with the help of the population. Imprisoned in a barracks in Lubumbashi, 82 soldiers from two different…