| 21 October 2005 | A six hour walk for water will become a thing of the past for thousands of Ghanaians when a team of Royal Engineers install a water pipeline that will deliver water at the turn of a tap. |
| 18 October 2005 | Feature: Valour in the Congo: The UN were holding out for a hero in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They found one in Marine reservist Colonel Paul Jobbins. |
| 23 September 2005 | The Ministry of Defence has signed an agreement with the South African Government to restore and maintain war graves from the Boer War. The Boer War lasted from 1899-1902, claiming the lives of 22,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers. |
| 22 September 2005 | The second phase of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) was opened in Ghana by UK Armed Forces Minister, Adam Ingram, and the Ghanaian Defence Minister, Dr Kwame Addo-Kufour. |
| 21 September 2005 | The first of 43 new trucks were handed over to the Sierra Leone Armed Forces by UK Armed Forces Minister, Adam Ingram. |
| 20 September 2005 | An extra £200,000 is to be allocated to assist training of over 17,000 Nigerian troops as peacekeepers in Africa, Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram announced whilst visiting the peacekeeping training school in Jaji, Nigeria. |
| 5 September 2005 | Over fifty tennis rackets, balls and tennis clothing were donated to the children of Sierra Leone by young tennis players from the Northern Tennis club in Manchester in summer 2004. |
| 4 August 2005 | Army medics from Aldershot have just returned from a six week expedition inoculating and treating remote tribal people in northern and central Kenya. |
| 20 July 2005 | The third in a series of special reports from West Africa looking at the work of British military and civilian personnel helping to improve the lives of people in Sierra Leone. COLONEL Steve Davies is on a year's posting to Freetown as an advisor to the Sierra Leone MOD. Every weekend he is busy on his second, unofficial, job: helping to save the last reminders of Sierra Leone's railways. |
| 19 July 2005 | The second in a series of special reports from West Africa looking at the work of British military and civilian personnel helping to improve the lives of people in Sierra Leone. WHEN Tony Blair's father taught at Freetown's Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone was an African success story. But that was before the civil war. |
| 18 July 2005 | The first in a series of special reports from West Africa looking at the work of British military and civilian personnel helping to improve the lives of people in Sierra Leone. A student protest and a simultaneous demonstration by the Drivers' Union have created gridlock in the streets of Freetown. A border incursion in the east of the country is threatening to get out of hand, and - although nobody knows it yet - an unattended cooking fire is about to cause a major blaze in Freetown's shanty quarter. |
| 27 April 2005 | A squad of Royal Air Force footballers have completed a successful tour to South Africa, and in the process have helped to improve the lives of disadvantaged children. |
| 17 February 2005 | The first East African International Mine Action Training Centre (IMATC) was formally opened by Adam Ingram, UK Minister for the Armed Forces, in Kenya. As an internationally-recognised Centre of Excellence, it will provide high quality training, advice and expertise on all aspects of humanitarian demining. |
| 29 July 2004 | Minister for the Armed Forces, Adam Ingram, announced the MOD's intention to provide the Government of Sierra Leone with £4.5m worth of technical assistance funding for trucks and communications equipment over the next three years. |
| 24 January 2004 | The opening of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping and Training Centre, in Ghana, "marks a mile stone in international co-operation towards developing West African peacekeeping and peace support operating capabilities", said Armed Forces Minister, Adam Ingram and the FCO's Minister for Africa, Chris Mullin. |
| 23 June 2003 | Following his announcement in the House of Commons on 12 June 2003 that the UK would be contributing an engineer detachment and staff officers to the European Union-led stabilisation force deploying to Bunia in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Minister of State for the Armed Forces gave further details in Parliament about the precise size and task of the UK contingent. |
| 12 June 2003 | The Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Adam Ingram MP, confirmed that the United Kingdom would be contributing a contingent to the European Union military force being deployed to help stabilise the situation in Bunia in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| 21 February 2003 | As a demonstration of the United Kingdom's continuing military commitment to supporting the settlement process in Sierra Leone, a company group from the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles is being deployed to Freetown. |
| 6 February 2003 | 2002 saw significant support to charities in Kenya by the British Army Training and Liaison Staff (BATLSK), who supervise the use of training areas in the country by British forces. The year was rounded off by a major fundraising event - a whisky-tasting dinner well attended by the British community. |
| 12 November 2002 | The United Kingdom has taken over command of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Major General Robert Gordon has become the force commander of 4500 UN troops monitoring the end of fighting between the Ethiopians and Eritreans in the border zone. The UN Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea also has responsibility for supporting work to demine, delineate and demarcate the border between the two countries. |
| 22 August 2002 | 38 British soldiers and airmen have been working with the Zambian Wildlife Authority and the David Shepherd Wildlife Conservation Trust, refurbishing equipment for use in the fight against poachers. |
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