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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Although piracy is not new to East Africa, the seeds of modern piracy were sown off the coast of Somalia…
Piracy in Africa’s Gulf of Guinea ramped up later and took on a different character than piracy in East Africa.…
Piracy Remains a Problem, but African Nations Are Working Together ADF Staff With more than 30,000 kilometers of coastline, the fortunes of…
Foreign Trawlers are Depleting Africa’s Fish Stocks, but Nations Have the Tools to Fight Back ADF STAFF For the Oleg…
Rear Adm. Peter Kofi Faidoo of Ghana Sees Collaboration, Technology and Training as Keys to a Safer Gulf of Guinea…
Africa’s Smallest Nation Is Setting a Standard for Safe, Sustainable Seas ADF STAFF As the six Seychellois crew members of the fishing…
Complex Laws and Limited Resources Make it Hard to Bring Criminals to Justice ADF STAFF The guilty verdict handed down…
Air Force Contributes to Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia ADF STAFF The residents of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, a lakeside town 25 kilometers south…
ADF STAFF The U.S. Navy once analyzed data and concluded that, in theory, a C-130 Hercules transport plane could carry…
MAJ. RYAN McCAUGHAN In 1910, in the American town of Gulfport, Mississippi, a young boy named John Robinson witnessed a…