For almost nine months, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group has operated its own government…
Africa Defense Forum
ADF is a professional military magazine published quarterly by U.S. Africa Command to provide an international forum for African security professionals. ADF covers topics such as counter terrorism strategies, security and defense operations, transnational crime, and all other issues affecting peace, stability, and good governance on the African continent.
West Africa’s roads are more than trade routes. They have become the front lines of…
A new Tigrayan rebel group is clashing with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), conducting…
Several South African men were shown milling around a parking lot wearing military uniforms bearing…
Members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary force didn’t hide their violent acts after…
Despite a national crackdown on illegal gold mining in Ghana, the practice, locally known as…
As Sahel-based terrorist groups continue to look southward to expand their territory, resources, recruitment base…
In recent years, Africa’s militaries have gone on a drone-buying binge, stocking their arsenals with…
Jean Bakomito Gambu, governor of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s northeastern Haut-Uélé province, visited…
Africa loses an estimated $11.2 billion in annual revenue to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU)…
Rear Adm. António Duarte Monteiro, chief of staff of the Cabo Verdean Armed Forces, spoke…