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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In Russia’s frenzied attempt to flex its muscles, get access to natural resources and increase its geopolitical relevance, it relies…
BY CYRIL ZENDA A ruthless and shadowy insurgent group has taken root in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. The Islamic…
ADF STAFF In Madagascar, a webpage in the Malagasy language shows a cartoon of a Russian bear awakening from hibernation…
Photos by MINUSCA Lt. Gen. Daniel Sidiki Traoré was appointed force commander of MINUSCA in January 2020 after serving as…
ADF STAFF In late 2019, as a fierce battle raged in Libya to save the southern suburbs of Tripoli, medics…
ADF STAFF Russian mercenaries have been linked to human rights abuses and have tried to profit off the chaos in…
ADF STAFF Conflict among oil, gas and mining companies and the people who live nearby is nothing new. In the…
ADF STAFF The city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, dangles from the mainland on a tiny peninsula. The city, the second largest…
ADF STAFF The Congo Basin rainforest is huge, second only to the Amazon. It sprawls across six nations, but it…
ADF STAFF Namibian tax authorities made a shocking discovery in 2017. Millions of dollars were leaving the country for China,…