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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ADF STAFF Cyber security experts say Africa’s top smartphone brand has sold tens of thousands of phones loaded with malicious…
ADF STAFF A woman prayed in the rubble of a mosque on the beach at Jamestown, Ghana. Nearby, despondent men…
ADF STAFF For more than a decade, the terror group al-Shabaab has used the abduction and recruitment of thousands of…
ADF STAFF As part of its ongoing support of the Nigerien Armed Forces’ anti-extremism efforts, U.S. Ambassador to Niger Eric…
ADF STAFF Fireworks erupted at a recent Nigerian National Assembly meeting. The explosive subject? A probe of loans from China…
ADF STAFF The sight of 50-meter-long trawlers has become increasingly common at the port in Monrovia, Liberia. The arrival of…
ADF STAFF Young Gambian men balance heavy boxes of fish on their heads as they hurry across the slick floor…
ADF STAFF In April 2019, officials in Singapore intercepted nearly 13 metric tons of pangolin scales. They were hidden in…
ADF STAFF As Chad fights extremism, technology donated by the U.S. is helping unite a diverse group of far-flung civil-society…
ADF STAFF Foreign trawlers engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing off the West African coast are decimating once-abundant…
ADF STAFF Striking an important blow against wildlife poaching, Malawi recently sentenced members of the Lin-Zhang crime syndicate to a…
ADF STAFF The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) recently donated a new police station to the Somali Police Force…