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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On a recent Wednesday at a pet crematory on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South African authorities destroyed nearly a metric…
In the wake of a surge of refugees from neighboring Mali, Côte d’Ivoire is adding security forces along its northern…
Abubakar Adamu began his military career with the Nigerian Army in 1987, years before the World Wide Web was invented…
Since its inception in 2002, Boko Haram has become the second-deadliest terrorist organization in Africa, just behind al-Shabaab. The group…
Nations came together in November to participate in Grand African Nemo 2025, an annual exercise aimed at honing the maritime…
Chinese private security companies operate in at least 14 African countries, including Djibouti, Ethiopia, Egypt, Kenya and Somalia, where Beijing’s…
Organized crime formed in the wake of Africa’s postcolonial independence in the 1970s, proliferated through continental conflicts in the 1980s…
As Sahelian insecurity continues its westward and southward surge, Ghana is beefing up its maritime security to address sea crimes…
Al-Qaida-linked terrorists have extorted a hefty ransom for an Emirati sheikh to finance their efforts to strangle the government in…
For almost nine months, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group has operated its own government in the west — a…
West Africa’s roads are more than trade routes. They have become the front lines of the region’s expanding wars. In…
A new Tigrayan rebel group is clashing with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), conducting raids on civilians in the…