The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) terror group stormed a Malian military base in Boulkessi…
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.
China has an extensive record of attempting to gain power and influence in Africa. It’s…
Security analysts are warning that internal strife between Somalia’s federal government and regional states is…
Ghana is strengthening its northern border by building forward operating bases and deploying troops to…
A terrorist group that dominates the Lake Chad region collects about $191 million annually in…
The gruesome killing of 16 men by an angry mob as they traveled through the…
The Sahel objectives of the Kremlin’s Africa Corps are similar to those of Russia’s Wagner…
As terrorist groups grow in sophistication and continue to expand beyond the Sahel, countries throughout…
Massad Boulos, the United States government’s senior advisor on Arab and African Affairs, has conducted…
Less than two years after Sudan’s civil war began in April 2023, the two warring…
Ambassador Mohamed El-Amine Souef of Comoros, special representative of the African Union Commission Chairperson for…