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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(Ludwick Marishane) VOICE OF AMERICA Unemployment remains stubbornly high in South Africa and is one of the greatest socio-economic problems…
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE African governments and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have agreed on the urgent need to harness the continent’s…
CLUES Rome conquered this ancient Punic trading post and converted it into a base for the conquest of the kingdoms…
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…