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.
Browsing: Africa Heartbeat
ADF STAFF Each October, as the South African spring gives way to summer, the sky in Cape Town becomes a…
ADF STAFF David Samba and Onomo Mugabi don protective headgear and big, puffy gloves to punch away in the shadow…
ADF STAFF The Rif Mountains extend nearly 300 kilometers from Tangier to the Moulouya River valley near Morocco’s Algerian frontier.…
ADF STAFF Assi Ndiaye pushes her fingers into a box of dirt, planting a small lettuce sprout on an urban…
Story and photos by REUTERS With music equipment laid out on an ironing board, disc jockey Evans Mireku Kissi waves…
A group of Malian children playfully peer through holes in a wall that surrounds the United Nations mission camp in Goundam,…
The historic city of Agadez, Niger, sits along the southern fringe of the Sahara, where nearly everything seems to take…
A young boy in the mainland city of Mbini, Equatorial Guinea, bounces a football off his head, no doubt imitating his…
Kenya’s government is bringing some light — and hope — to Kibera, a sprawling slum on the outskirts of Nairobi.…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Westgate Shopping Mall was a symbol of Kenya’s growing well-heeled middle class: a vast market crammed with flat-screen…