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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GHANA NAVY Ghana has joined an international network of navies that share select unclassified information related to merchant shipping. On…
ADF STAFF Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed to create a regional force to intervene…
UNMISS “If we want to truly transform and rebuild this country and a national army, we must listen to the…
ATMIS Fifty Somali journalists based in Kismayo, Jubaland State, completed a three-day media training seminar to improve media skills and…
MONUSCO Joint patrols between the U.N. Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and Congolese security…
ADF STAFF Kenya was among seven African nations to receive an array of equipment from the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC)…
U.S. AFRICA COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS U.S. Special Operations Forces have conducted a civil affairs joint combined exchange training alongside the…
DEFENCEWEB France and South Africa, which share a maritime exclusive economic zone (EEZ) border, have completed the biennial Exercise Oxide.…
ADF STAFF The Maravi kingdom, which took up parts of what are now Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and eastern Zimbabwe, was…
CLUES Ibadi Muslims established a community in this region in the 10th century. Five fortified villages, or ksour, constitute walled…