Britain’s military training missions in Africa aim to promote stability and rights, but in practice they often entangle the UK with fragile regimes, limited oversight and contested outcomes.

A new CAR report reveals how decades-old state-issued weapons—many diverted from national stockpiles—are fuelling Salafi-jihadist insurgencies in the central Sahel, exposing the enduring danger of legacy arms left to fester in unstable regions.

Conflict Armament Research’s Stray Bullets report exposes how diverted state ammunition fuels Salafi jihadist insurgencies in the Sahel, urging improved stockpile management and global cooperation to stem the flow of illicit arms.

The UK’s Special Forces have been reported on operations in almost twenty countries in just over 10 years. Here we outline why this might be concern.

Data on costs associated with Defence Loan Service Personnel to 85 countries, including human rights priority nations, reveal global cost of up to £40m in 2022.

On Saturday 22 April, a triple suicide car-bombing in the central Mali town of Sevare killed at least 10 civilians and injured over 60.