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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World Bank Making use of vast energy potential such as solar, wind and geothermal, and a grid that is nearly…
ADF STAFF The Sultanate of Damagaram was never one of Africa’s biggest empires. In what is now Niger, at its…
CLUES This city was developed in the 15th and 16th centuries with the establishment of the Sultanate of Aïr. Its…
Since 1978 and 1979, when 10 female cadet officers and 64 recruits enlisted in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Malawi has received 17 black rhinos from South Africa under a program to replenish the species that temporarily…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Early each morning, a crowd gathers outside Ahmad Isah’s radio studio in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, hoping to share…
THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Data analyst Fabrice Sonzahi enrolled in a course on artificial intelligence (AI) in Dakar, Senegal, hoping to…
ADF STAFF When legendary Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta made his way into what is now Somalia between 1330 and 1332, he…
VOICE OF AMERICA In Africa, hundreds of indigenous languages are on the verge of extinction. That includes at least 13…