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 After a push to recruit and train more female pilots, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) announced it had…
ADF STAFF As desert locusts spread across East Africa in February 2020, Uganda deployed 2,000 Soldiers to battle the pests.…
ADF STAFF France and several of its allies have announced the formation of a new task force to fight terrorist…
ADF STAFF The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) killed several top Boko Haram commanders during airstrikes on settlements near Lake Chad.…
U.S. AFRICA COMMAND U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) hosted senior members of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) to discuss long-term defense…
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Mozambican authorities detained 12 Iranians suspected of shipping drugs off the coast of the northern province…
REUTERS Nigeria and neighbors Benin and Niger have agreed to set up a joint border patrol force to tackle smuggling…
VOICE OF AMERICA Cameroon’s military arrested several dozen men and destroyed hundreds of handmade guns circulating on the northern border…
ADF STAFF A joint rescue team from the Cameroonian Navy and its Rapid Intervention Battalion oil field protection group saved…
VOICE OF AMERICA Gen. Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has been named commander of the Somali National Army (SNA). At 32, he…