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.
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VOICE OF AMERICA Five Southern African countries, which have more than half the continent’s elephants, conducted the first aerial census…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE In Côte d’Ivoire, a new “Superphone” that uses a voice assistant to respond to commands in a local…
ADF STAFF Senegalese artist Fally Sene Sow took inspiration from the depressing days of the COVID-19 pandemic to build a…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Hanganani Gideon Dube, 75, has walked with a slight limp and his speech has been labored since he…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The hospital room is air-cooled to feel like a pangolin’s burrow. The patient, Lumbi, is syringe-fed with a…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Construction workers in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, are building a barrier around a primary forest in the center of…
ADF STAFF Diébédo Francis Kéré of Burkina Faso has won the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize, making him the first African…
story and photos by AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE For many peanut growers in the Paoua region of the Central African Republic, life…
ADF STAFF Uganda ended the world’s longest school closure on January 10, 2022, by ordering millions of students back to…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE When it opened in 1960, the Ducor hotel in Monrovia, Liberia, was one of the only five-star hotels…