Ethiopia, a Third Party partner since February 2002, is "ideally located" in the Horn of Africa for unique access to targets. In 2005 the Deployed SIGINT Operation Center aka "Lion's Pride" in Addis Ababa has grown to 103 Ethiopians and eight U.S. military personnel.

An article describes the current state of U.N. peacekeeping operations in sub-Saharan Africa and predicts growth in missions and personnel. There is no mention of NSA or SID participation.

This undated 81-page NSA presentation and accompanying handdrawn diagram, both produced by the author of ‘I hunt sys admins’ explains how a country’s entire network traffic could be fed into agency systems: see the Intercept article The Hunter, 28 June 2016.

This 11 January 2012 article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday gives a first person account of how a Korean-language analyst went about learning Tigrinya, one of the languages spoken in Eritrea: see the Intercept article The Philosopher of Surveillance, 11 August 2015.