Tuareg herders Ousmane Ag Sidi and Abdoulwahab Ag Mahamad were working in and around Zahro,…
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.
The Nigerian government’s Terrorist Prevention Act reclassified violent bandit groups, criminal gangs and kidnapping syndicates…
While piracy is down in the Gulf of Guinea, the region remains the world’s hot…
A northern region of Cameroon in the Lake Chad Basin has become a focal point…
After years of losses to the joint military forces of the Democratic Republic of the…
Recent terrorist attacks by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Islamic State Sahel Province in western…
China has refused to sign an agreement meant to improve efforts to combat illegal, unreported…
As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew to become one…
Chad has reestablished its military relationship with France nearly 18 months after demanding that French…
As 2025 wound down, four African regions continued to endure terrorist threats: the Sahel, particularly…
Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu of Ethiopia, executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), addressed…