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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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Zimasa Mabela grew up under apartheid in a South African village just two hours’ drive from the ocean,…
DEFENCEWEB Sierra Leone commissioned a new patrol boat to monitor fishing vessels and poachers in its territorial waters. President Ernest…
VOICE OF AMERICA A senior official at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said the group’s policies to…
THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE The Nigerian Navy is using an Israeli-designed, United Arab Emirates-built Falcon Eye mass surveillance system to track…
DEFENCEWEB The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has asked the South African military to help train Soldiers. It is…
DEFENCEWEB The Tunisian Navy has commissioned its first locally built patrol boat, the product of a partnership between the government…
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Benin’s president vowed to contribute 800 troops to a regional force to combat the Nigeria-based Islamic extremist…
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Members of the African Union’s new 25,000-strong multinational standby force gathered in South Africa in October…
Morocco has dismantled a seven-member terrorist cell linked to ISIS that was planning to abduct and murder tourists, the Interior…
The U.S. donated $850,000 worth of military gear to Zambia to help protect the country’s peacekeepers during their deployment in…