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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Ask experts for solutions to Africa’s myriad security challenges, and many are likely to call for greater cooperation, training and…
Now in its third year, civil war in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces…
Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania lost up to $142.8 million annually between 2015 and 2021 to illegal fishing of…
With more than 100 armed groups operating in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the region is one of the…
Social media has become a key communication tool for terrorist groups across Africa, presenting governments with a challenge: how to…
The South African National Defense Force faces a R41.2 billion (more than $2.3 million) budgetary shortfall that limits every operational,…
For decades, Russia has used vast, shadowy networks to prey on fears about pandemics and diseases like mpox, Marburg, Ebola…
About 80% of the world’s oil trade moves through the Western Indian Ocean, which faces escalating maritime threats, including attacks…
Ghana’s fisheries sector directly and indirectly employs about 2.2 million people who process, sell, transport, wash and descale fish. However,…
A Ukrainian drone in late April hit the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Tatarstan region, where kamikaze drones are…
As terror groups continue to launch attacks in the Sahel, some fear that the day will come when insurgents march…
African nations have become a testing ground for hybrid warfare tactics in recent years, a development that experts say requires…