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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Léopold Sédar Senghor was an intellectual, a writer, a scholar, a statesman and the first president of Senegal. He wrote…
CLUES Founded at the beginning of the 1st millennium B.C., this city started out as a Phoenician port. The city…
The sectarian violence in the Central African Republic has uprooted nearly 1 million people, and it is estimated that 2.2…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Makoko, Nigeria, known as the “slum on stilts” and the “Venice of Africa,” hopes a new floating school…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Can robots ease traffic chaos in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo? A small cooperative,…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Mandla Maseko, 25, of the Mabopane district near Pretoria, South Africa, will fly 103 kilometers into space in…
Adf staff A young boy sits on a stool, stares at a chalkboard, and writes in his notebook. His classroom is…
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wilson Kipsang won the London Marathon for the second time on April 13, 2014, producing a course…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Headlines portray the Sahara as a barren desert that claims the lives of many migrants. But Nigerian poet…