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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ADF STAFF Cheap, widely available drone technology has the potential to revolutionize medicine delivery, crop treatment and surveillance across Africa.…
ADF STAFF More than 30 websites in Mozambique, including the Defense Ministry’s, went down February 21, 2022, after being targeted…
Dr. Mark Duerksen is a research associate at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. His research focuses on Nigeria’s security…
ADF STAFF | Photos by AFP/Getty Images Mass atrocities, forced displacement, public executions: Terror. It has been a fact of…
ADF STAFF As extremists launched murderous assaults on Burkinabe churches in 2019, neighboring Ghana took note. In preceding years, Islamist-backed terrorism…
ADF STAFF Mohamed Znagui Sid’Ahmed Ely knows the security challenges of the Sahel well. A former brigadier general in the…
ADF STAFF There’s a fantastic amount of gold to be found in the Sahel. In addition to the region’s large-scale…
ADF STAFF As the sun set on the final day of Ramadan, a muezzin called faithful Muslims to prayer. They…
ADF STAFF Abubakar Shekau had cheated death before. Several times since the brutal Boko Haram leader took control of the…
ADF STAFF Students at the Government Science College in Nigeria’s Niger State were sleeping one night in February 2021 when…