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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Social media has become a key communication tool for terrorist groups across Africa, presenting governments with a challenge: how to…
The South African National Defense Force faces a R41.2 billion (more than $2.3 million) budgetary shortfall that limits every operational,…
For decades, Russia has used vast, shadowy networks to prey on fears about pandemics and diseases like mpox, Marburg, Ebola…
About 80% of the world’s oil trade moves through the Western Indian Ocean, which faces escalating maritime threats, including attacks…
Ghana’s fisheries sector directly and indirectly employs about 2.2 million people who process, sell, transport, wash and descale fish. However,…
A Ukrainian drone in late April hit the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Tatarstan region, where kamikaze drones are…
As terror groups continue to launch attacks in the Sahel, some fear that the day will come when insurgents march…
African nations have become a testing ground for hybrid warfare tactics in recent years, a development that experts say requires…
Russian mercenary organization Wagner Group is being replaced in the Sahel by the state-controlled Africa Corps. However, it seems unlikely…
Shock and frustration colored Abdelaziz Ali’s face as he walked out of the primary school where he worked in Khartoum.…
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) recently took control of the country’s northwestern corner that borders Egypt and Libya. The…
The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin terror group unexpectedly stormed the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo early May 11 and…