Armed groups in the Sahel are exploiting tensions between the Economic Community of West African…
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.
With a rapidly growing online population and historically weak cyber defenses, African nations are on…
A Nigerien rebel group has attacked oil production infrastructure, which could weaken the country’s finances…
The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) in mid-January received nearly $1 million worth of spare parts…
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) captured more than 10 South Sudanese citizens as part of…
Forests cover nearly half of Cameroon, but they are being rapidly degraded by illegal logging…
An ethnic militia that was recruited, trained and armed by Russia’s Wagner Group PMC has…
Several ships left a port in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between Lithuania and Poland, in…
Islamic State militants approached a neighborhood on the outskirts of Mocímboa da Praia in northern…
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…