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OE Watch Issue 2 2025

OE Watch Issue 2 2025

By Kevin O'Connell | 06/05/2025 | Comments Off on OE Watch Issue 2 2025

The OE Watch provides translated selections with background from a diverse range of foreign media that our analysts and expert…

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Instruments of Chinese Military Influence in Uganda

By Kevin O'Connell | 06/03/2025 | Comments Off on Instruments of Chinese Military Influence in Uganda

What tools of national power does China use to gain military influence in Uganda? In this new report from FMSO’s…

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Legacy Articles On Iran

By Kevin O'Connell | 01/31/2024 | Comments Off on Legacy Articles On Iran
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CAR Joins Mali in Accusing France of Funding Terrorists

By Dianne McIntosh | 04/01/2023 | Comments Off on CAR Joins Mali in Accusing France of Funding Terrorists

View from Bangui, Central African Republic. “The Central African Republic has been subjected since its independence to systematic looting facilitated…

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Algeria Seeks Non-Alignment by Preserving Russia Ties While Welcoming NATO Overtures

By Dianne McIntosh | 03/01/2023 | Comments Off on Algeria Seeks Non-Alignment by Preserving Russia Ties While Welcoming NATO Overtures

Algeria hosts final planning conference for joint Russian-Algerian exercise Desert Shield 2022. “Algeria clings to the principle of non-alignment.” While…

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Warner 01 Ghana_Armed_Forces_ _Military_Sergeant_Soldier 1

Coastal West African States Brace for Wave of Terrorism From the Sahel

By Denise Judd | 10/01/2022 | Comments Off on Coastal West African States Brace for Wave of Terrorism From the Sahel

A Ghanaian soldier in 2013. We need all of us to understand that the best way of making sure that…

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Warner 03 French Soldiers in Operation_Barkhane

Mali Claims France Funded Terrorists; France Denies

By Denise Judd | 10/01/2022 | Comments Off on Mali Claims France Funded Terrorists; France Denies

French soldiers talk to locals in southern Mali in 2016. These flagrant violations of Mali’s airspace have served France to…

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Winter 02 President of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune

“Chronic Instability” Atop Algerian Military’s Foreign Intelligence and Security Directorate

By Denise Judd | 10/01/2022 | Comments Off on “Chronic Instability” Atop Algerian Military’s Foreign Intelligence and Security Directorate

President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune (2021). …a politico-military regime… which cuts off heads instead of…

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Benin Park Rangers Take on Counterterrorism Tasks

By Kevin O'Connell | 08/02/2022 | Comments Off on Benin Park Rangers Take on Counterterrorism Tasks

“In Benin, there is a lot of communication between us [park rangers] and the Beninese armed forces, but our roles…

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Feldman 01 M23 rebels in the DRC

DRC Conflicts Reveal Difficulties in Deploying Regional Forces

By Denise Judd | 08/02/2022 | Comments Off on DRC Conflicts Reveal Difficulties in Deploying Regional Forces

M23 rebels in the DRC. “But however noble President Kenyatta’s deployment proposal, not everyone in the DRC agrees with the…

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