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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Terrorist groups increasingly are targeting roads, communities and commercial hubs within a 10-kilometer radius of mines in the Sahel, according…
In Sierra Leone, the illegal activities of foreign industrial trawlers are decimating fish stocks and threatening the livelihoods of artisanal…
As terror groups from the Sahel encroach on coastal West African states, Mauritania has remained relatively peaceful. The country has…
Tuareg herders Ousmane Ag Sidi and Abdoulwahab Ag Mahamad were working in and around Zahro, a village on the Niger…
The Nigerian government’s Terrorist Prevention Act reclassified violent bandit groups, criminal gangs and kidnapping syndicates as terrorists in 2022. The…
While piracy is down in the Gulf of Guinea, the region remains the world’s hot spot for illegal, unreported and…
A northern region of Cameroon in the Lake Chad Basin has become a focal point of pressure by terrorists trying…
After years of losses to the joint military forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the Islamic…
Recent terrorist attacks by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Islamic State Sahel Province in western Niger reveal the rapidly deteriorating…
China has refused to sign an agreement meant to improve efforts to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Beijing…
As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew to become one of the deadliest on record,…
Chad has reestablished its military relationship with France nearly 18 months after demanding that French forces leave the country in…