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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Turkey is helping strengthen Somalia’s battle against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and other sea crimes. The two countries in…
The three nations that make up the Alliance of Sahel States are home to terror groups that threaten to spread…
Farai Maguwu has collected stories and testimonies throughout Zimbabwe for years. Some are heartbreaking, some disturbing, and each is accompanied…
African militaries are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) for surveillance, situational awareness, intelligence gathering and to increase operational efficiency in…
It was not easy for Nigerian Maj. Gen. Godwin Mutkut to take a week away from his post as force…
Graphic videos of a massacre in villages surrounding the western Burkina Faso town of Solenzo spread rapidly on social media…
Across the northern reaches of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo, there is relative peace compared to the dire situation in…
Sudan’s 2-year-old war began as a fight for supremacy between the leaders of the national Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and…
Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta in mid-March announced it was recruiting 14,000 soldiers to fight rebels affiliated with al-Qaida and…
Chinese companies are involved in one-third of Africa’s 231 commercial ports, a significantly larger presence and influence than anywhere else…
ADF STAFF Somalia’s al-Shabaab and Yemen’s Ansar Allah rebels have struck an alliance that threatens to destabilize more of the…
Djibouti’s position at the southern end of the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandeb Strait has made it vital to international and…