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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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The United Nations Security Council has backed reforms to reduce inefficiencies, corruption and abuse in far-flung peacekeeping…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The French Navy conducted a series of 10-day regional exercises named African NEMO (Navy’s Exercise for Maritime Operations)…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A Nigerian lawyer who helped secure the release of more than 100 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in…
REUTERS Five countries in the Sahel are setting up a security bloc to crack down on trafficking, terror and other cross-border…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Algeria announced that it has destroyed the last of its stock of anti-personnel mines, 10 months after fully…
REUTERS Maritime police from Somalia’s semiautonomous region of Puntland seized a boat loaded with weapons from Yemen. Puntland authorities displayed…
BRAND SOUTH AFRICA A group of students from South Africa’s University of the Western Cape (UWC) is the first African research…
VOICE OF AMERICA A farmers’ group in South Sudan’s Imotong State says it has found a way to combat the…
JEFFREY MOYO/INTER PRESS SERVICE Sixty-seven-year-old Hloniphani Sidingo smiles broadly while popping out through the gate of a clinic in her…
FRIDAY PHIRI/INTER PRESS SERVICE Frequent extreme weather and climate shifts challenge already vulnerable groups such as smallholder farmers. Between 2004…