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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MEDIA CLUB SOUTH AFRICA The story of Abdel Kader Haidara, a book collector and librarian from Timbuktu, Mali, reads more…
VOICE OF AMERICA When Africans go on Twitter, they are increasingly talking politics. A study by Portland Communications, a London-based…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The government of Cameroon is partnering with French energy giant EDF and the World Bank to fund a…
REUTERS The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has helped detect a type of star known as a white dwarf pulsar,…
MEDIA CLUB SOUTH AFRICA A popular variety of handmade commercial paper has messy beginnings. John Matano’s Nampath Paper is one…
He acted from his heart ADF STAFF In 1994, after the assassination of the president of Rwanda, soldiers of the presidential…
CLUES This water body’s salt content is 34.8 percent. That’s 10 times higher than the oceans and 5 to 10…
When I took over as the eighth elected president of the African Development Bank on September 1, 2015, I was…
REUTERS/ADF STAFF Former colonial power Italy left Eritrea in 1941, but its architectural legacy lives on. Today, the capital, Asmara,…