Nigeria, other African countries face six-fold increase in security threat in 2yrs – US AFRICOM

Brigadier General Paul G. Filcek, Director of Logistics at US AFRICOM, disclosed this during a digital press conference with African journalists on the ongoing 2026 Africa Logistics and Communications Symposium, co-hosted with the Ethiopian Ministry of Defence.

A discrepancy between China's export data and U.S. import data is "not because ships are sinking mid-Pacific," notes UBS's Paul Donovan.