Special Forces accused of murder expose a security system in disarray – and an Islamic State network running from Mogadishu to Midrand
The South African National Defence Force’s Special Forces command is facing its gravest public challenge since apartheid: not a battlefield reverse, but allegations that serving soldiers abducted an Islamic State-linked financier and then killed the policeman who pursued the trail. Twelve military personnel have been charged and deny wrongdoing. Yet the case’s political charge lies elsewhere: promotions have followed the investigation, state-funded defence is continuing and three accused whose bail was revoked remain outside custody.
A loose anti-federal alliance is becoming a political and military problem for Addis Ababa and in the wider region
On 1 August, heavy fighting broke out at Shererina, a Tigrayan military stronghold on the Ethiopia-Sudan border – arguably the most serious confrontation between the Tigray Security Forces...
A rebooted coalition might hold together but in Kenya’s political marketplace it is blocs, not ideas, that are the trading currency
The truism that Kenyan political parties are almost exclusively personal vehicles has been spelt out in technicolour by the fate of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) less than...
