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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ADF STAFF Tanzanian filmmakers have released the country’s first film to be streamed on Netflix. “Binti” is a story about…
REUTERS In a tin shed off the backstreets of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) capital, a barefoot…
REUTERS Somali artisan Muse Mohamud Olosow carefully sorts through a huge pile of camel bones discarded by a slaughterhouse in…
ADF STAFF Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur got the world’s attention when she won the French Open junior title in…
VOICE OF AMERICA Senegal will host the Youth Olympic Games in 2026 in what supporters hope will be the first…
ADF STAFF Nigeria hosted the inaugural Sahel Military Games with about 350 athletes from military forces participating in a weeklong…
Ethiopian runner Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women’s half-marathon world record in October 2021 by running 62 minutes and 52 seconds…
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS In Kenya, the road linking the capital, Nairobi, and the town of Naivasha had some rather…
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been…
ADF STAFF A nine-part series charting the global rise of Afrobeats has premiered in Lagos, Nigeria. “Afrobeats: The Backstory” was…