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ADF STAFF In returning to his hometown of Bujumbura, Frederic Gateretse-Ngoga awoke every morning with a strong sense of place…

ADF STAFF Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Kotia remembers being deployed to Lebanon in 2006 to command the Ghanaian battalion of the…

ADF STAFF The 27-minute video shows how one of the Lake Chad Basin’s fiercest extremist groups turns children ages 8…

ADF STAFF  |  Photos by REUTERS Over the past decade, Sudan has become the third-largest producer of gold in Africa.…

ADF STAFF For most of post-independence history, air forces in Africa were not a priority. Expensive and difficult to maintain,…

ADF STAFF As air chiefs unpacked their bags and got back to work after returning from a continental symposium in Senegal,…

Maj. Gen. Hendrick Thuthu Rakgantswana became chief of Botswana’s Air Arm Command in 2021 after serving in the Air Force…

ADF STAFF Northeast Nigeria’s famed Sambisa Forest is known for its low-profile trees and dense thickets, punishing anyone foolish enough…

ADF STAFF Modern fighter jets are marvels of power and complexity. Armed with air-to-air missiles, they can reach speeds of…

As South Sudanese peacekeepers walked off a Kenya Air Force C-27J Spartan military transport aircraft in the Democratic Republic of…