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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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…
When Kenyan police arrested six men in the vast Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border in April 2015, their…
ADF STAFF The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) inaugurated a new multinational maritime coordination center designed to monitor…
The former U.S. Coast Guard cutter Gallatin was transferred to the Nigerian Navy during a ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina,…