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 A Tunisian startup is developing a 3D-printed bionic hand, hoping the affordable and solar-powered prosthetic will help amputees…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE About 70 armed groups have agreed to a cease-fire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) South…
ADF STAFF Sudan and South Sudan have signed a joint defense and military cooperation agreement, the latest indication of improved…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Troops from Niger have freed 11 villagers, four of them children, who had been seized by Boko Haram…
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Plans to allow industrial logging in one of Central Africa’s last intact forests have been halted…
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS A little-known mammal related to an elephant but as small as a mouse has been rediscovered…
VOICE OF AMERICA Students in Malawi were out of school for six months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although most…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Quick adaptation has enabled Ethiopian Airlines to pull through tough COVID-19 restrictions and “saved the airline,” its CEO…
WORLD BANK Nestled in the dense rainforest of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve in southwest Ethiopia are thousands of genetic variants…
ADF Staff In 2020, John Oroko of Kenya witnessed the devastation wrought by desert locusts. It was a call to…