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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THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Africa’s most decorated footballer, Samuel Eto’o, is appealing for funding to help people escaping violence in Nigeria…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Tourists perch on a volcano’s edge as smoke swirls from the fiery cauldron of lava in the war-torn…
DEFENCEWEB South Africa and France announced an agreement for cooperative patrols in the southern Indian Ocean against illegal, unreported and…
THE EAST AFRICAN In a long-awaited vote, the U.S. Congress moved to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)…
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ADF STAFF In what is being lauded as a major crackdown on the illegal ivory trade, Tanzanian officials…
DEFENCEWEB The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has asked the South African military to help train Soldiers. It is…
DEFENCEWEB The Tunisian Navy has commissioned its first locally built patrol boat, the product of a partnership between the government…
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Benin’s president vowed to contribute 800 troops to a regional force to combat the Nigeria-based Islamic extremist…
BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Members of the African Union’s new 25,000-strong multinational standby force gathered in South Africa in October…
REUTERS Power cuts in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries could become an exception rather than the norm in 10 years, with…