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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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,…
DEFENCEWEB Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are flying hundreds of missions over South Africa’s Kruger National Park as part of a…
The Nigerian Navy has announced plans to partner with the International Committee of the Red Cross to train Sailors on…
ADF STAFF Interpol announced plans to open a permanent office at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The…
REUTERS The Ghana Navy announced it freed a tanker that was hijacked off the coast of Nigeria and arrested eight…
DEFENCEWEB The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa and the University of Blida in Algeria signed…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Ugandan security forces stopped a cell of Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents in the nation’s capital that was planning an…
DEFENCEWEB A reconnaissance light aircraft built by a South African company has made its maiden flight and has become the first…